BOOKS, AUTHORED:
Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century: The Popularization of Romance. New York: Palgrave, 2014. 244pp. An analysis of influential and emblematic non-literary texts dealing with love from the first century of the popular book market. Its thesis is that the rise of the book market greatly facilitated the cultural dissemination of various conflicting ideas about romantic love and its significance.
Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000; paperback ed. 2005. 288pp. A book in Oxford’s series Studies in the History of Sexuality that addresses the place of explicitly erotic writing in early modern English culture and society, with a special emphasis on the relations between erotic writing and the politics of gender and national identity.
BOOKS, TRANSLATED:
Edition and translation of Antonio Vignali’s La Cazzaria, a sixteenth century Italian erotic dialogue, never before published in an English scholarly edition. New York: Routledge: 2003. 181pp.
BOOKS, EDITED:
Editor: Magic, Marriage, and Midwifery: Eroticism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Volume 39 in the series Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (ASMAR) Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2016. 171pp.
Editor: Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives, co-edited with Heidi Brayman Hackel. New York: Modern Language Association, 2015. 274pp.
Editor: Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Volume 8 in the series Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (ASMAR) Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2004. 193pp.
BOOK CHAPTERS (refereed and peer-reviewed):
“Vagina Dialogues: Aretino’s Ragionamenti and Piccolomini’s Raffaella” in Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy, edited by Jacqueline Murray and Nicholas Terpstra (New York: Routledge, 2019), 211-26.
“The Manuscript Circulation of Erotic Poetry in Early Modern England” in The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature, ed. Bradford Mudge. 64-84. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
“As You Like It or What You Will: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Beccadelli’s Hermaphroditus” in Queer Shakespeare, ed. Goran Stanivukovic. 87-103. New York: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017.
“Monstrous Teardrops: The Materiality of Early Modern Affection” in Affective Economies and the Early Modern Stage, edited by Adam Zucker, Michelle Dowd, and Ronda Arab. 69-81. New York: Routledge, 2015.
“Catching the Plague: Love, Happiness, Health and Disease in Shakespeare” in Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body, ed. Sujata Iyengar, 212-22. New York: Routledge, 2015.
“The Way You Wear Your Hat: Sprezzatura in Classical Hollywood Cinema.” in The Renaissance: Revised, Expanded, Unexpurgated, ed. D. Medina Lasansky, 238-59. New York: Periscope Publishing, 2014.
“Courtship, Sex, and Marriage” in the Ashgate Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England, ed. Andrew Hadfield and Matthew Dimmock. 133-47. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014.
“Erotic Representation: 1500-1750” in The Routledge History of the Body and Sex in the West, 1500 to the Present, ed. Sarah Toulalan and Kate Fisher, 207-222. New York: Routledge, 2013.
"Castiglione: Love, Power, and Masculinity” in The Poetics of Masculinity in Early Modern Italy and Spain, ed. Gerry Milligan and Jane Tylus, 119-142. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
“Whores as Shopkeepers: Money and Sexuality in Aretino’s Ragionamenti” in Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Diane Wolfthal and Juliann Vitullo, 71-86. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2010.
“‘Popu-love’: Sex, Love, and Sixteenth Century Print Culture,” in Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England, ed. Matthew Dimmock and Andrew Hadfield, 91-103. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2009.
“Who Painted the Lion?”: Women and Novelle,” in The Transatlantic Emergence of the Female Reader, 1500-1800, ed. Cathy Kelly and Heidi Brayman Hackel, 151-68. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
“Sodomy and the Lash: Sexualized Satire in the Renaissance” in Living Dangerously: On the Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Barbara A. Hanawalt and Anna Grotans, 113-135. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
“Fat Knight, or What You Will: Inimitable Falstaff” in A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works: Volume III, The Comedies, ed. Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard, 223-242. New York: Blackwell, 2003.
“The Illicit Worlds of the Renaissance,” in A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, ed. Guido Ruggiero, 491-505. New York: Blackwell, 2002.
“Arms and the Women: The Ovidian Eroticism of Harington’s Ariosto” in Ovid and the Renaissance Body, ed. Goran Stanivukovic, 111-126. University of Toronto Press, 2001.
“Bawdy Politic: Renaissance Republicanism and the Discourse of Pricks,” Opening the Borders: Inclusivity and Early Modern Studies, Essays in Honor of James V. Mirollo. ed. Peter C. Herman, 225-242. University of Delaware Press, 1999.
"‘Printed Abroad and Uncastrated’: Marlowe’s Elegies with Davies’ Epigrams,” in Marlowe, History, and Sexuality: New Critical Essays on Christopher Marlowe, ed. Paul White, 77-90. New York: AMS Press 1998.
JOURNAL ARTICLES (refereed and peer-reviewed)
“His stones, his daughter, and his ducats”: The Rhetoric of Love and Possession in Early Modern Europe” Textual Practice 33.8 (2019), 1-17.
“Introduction” to a Special Issue on “Sex Acts in the Early Modern World.” Renaissance and Reformation, 38.4 (2015) co-edited by Vanessa McCarthy and Amyrose McCue Gill, 7-17.
“Modeling Female Sexuality in Early Modern Letter Books,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5 (2010), 229-234.
“In Praise of Touch: Mario Equicola and the Nature of Love,” Senses and Society 5.1 (March 2010): 119-30.
“Crafty Whores: The Moralizing of Aretino’s Dialogues” in ‘Reading in Early Modern England,’ guest editor Sasha Roberts; Critical Survey 12:2 (spring 2000): 88-105.
“Transmuted into a Woman or Worse: Masculine Gender Identity and Thomas Nashe's ‘Choice of Valentines’.” English Literary Renaissance 27.1 (Winter 1997): 57-88. Reprinted in Thomas Nashe, Georgia Brown, ed. (Ashgate 2011).
“Stratford and Bayreuth: Anti-Commercialism, Nationalism, and the Religion of Art,” Litteraria Pragensia 6.12 (1996): 39-50. Reprinted in After History, ed. Martin Prochazka, 117-132. Prague: Charles University Press, 2007.
“‘A Monster Great Deformed’: The Unruly Masculinity of Richard III,” Shakespeare Quarterly 47.3 (Fall 1996): 251-68. Reprinted in Shakespeare Criticism Yearbook 1996, and in the Norton Critical Edition of Richard III (ed. Thomas Cartelli, 2008), 383-400.
