Previous education: B.A. in History, Princeton University; master's work in Art History, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Interests: Shakespeare; Renaissance literature; lyric poetry; the experience of classical poetic meters; historiography; the influence of classical antiquity upon the post-antique world; counter-Reformation scientific culture; Michelangelo's sculptures; psychoanalysis.

Dissertation title: "Shakespeare's Songs"

Dissertation committee: David Wellbery (chair), Rosanna Warren, Richard Strier, David Bevington (deceased)