Essays

• “The Bee and the Sovereign (II): Segments, Swarms, and the Shakespearean Multitude.” The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies, vol. II, ed. Bryan Reynolds, Paul Cefalu, Gary Kuchar (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 59-80.
• “The Child’s Two Bodies: Shakespeare, Sovereignty, and the Ends of Succession.” ELH 81.3 (Fall 2014): 811-839.
• “The Bee and the Sovereign? Political Entomology and the Problem of Scale.” Shakespeare Studies 41 (2013): 94-113.
• “Middleton as Poet” in The Oxford Handbook of Middleton Studies, ed. Gary Taylor, Oxford University Press, 2012), 471-486.
  
• “Shakespeare’s Children,” Literature Compass 8.1 (2011): 1-14.
• “Letters (1580)” in The Oxford Handbook of Spenser Studies, ed. Richard A. McCabe (Oxford University Press, 2010), 178-197.
• “Boy Toys and Liquid Joys: Pleasure and Power in the Bower of Bliss” Modern Philology 106.3 (February 2009): 465-496.
  Recipient of the Crompton-Noll Award from the GL/Q Caucus of the MLA for best essay in lesbian, gay, and queer studies (2009)
•  “Reading Bleeding Trees: The Poetics of Other People’s Pain in Edmund Spenser’s Legend of Holiness,” in The Sense of Suffering: Constructions of Pain in Early Modern Europe, ed. J. F. van Dijkhuizen and Karl Enenkel, Leiden: Brill, 2009): 347-376.
•  “The State of England’s Camp: Courtesans, Curses, and the Violence of Style in The  Unfortunate Traveller” Prose Studies 29.3 (December 2007): 347-358.
• “Cruising Crusoe” in: Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800, Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture, ed. Chris Mounsey and Caroline Gonda (Bucknell University Press, 2007): 159-175.
• “Killing Shakespeare’s Children: The Cases of Richard III and King John.” Shakespeare 3.1 (April 2007): 18-39.
• “On Not Defending Poetry: Spenser, Suffering, and the Energy of Affect.” PMLA 120:1 (January 2005): 33-48
  Recipient of the Isabel MacCaffrey Essay Prize (2004-2005), International Spenser Society 

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