Academic Books
Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare’s World: Rethinking Female Adolescence (Cambridge University Press, 2021); sample chapter, ” ‘If I should tell / My history’: Memory, Trauma, and Testimony in Pericles and Hamlet“
Co-editor with Jennifer Summit, The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500-1610 (Palgrave, 2010)
Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England (Ashgate, 2003)
Humor Writing
Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas, co-authored with Michelle Ephraim (Penguin/Perigee [US] and Scribe [UK], 2015)
To read more about Shakespeare, Not Stirred and its popular reception, visit our website: everydayshakespeare.com
“Is the Husband Going to Be a Problem?” (New York Times, Modern Love, August 12, 2010)
“Sweet Dreams,” in Afterbirth: Stories You Won’t Read in a Parenting Magazine, ed. Dani Klein Modisett (St Martins Press, 2009)
“Deciding to Walk the Aisle Without Dad” (commentary for NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Feb. 10, 2005)
“Common App Essays by Shakespeare Characters” (McSweeney’s Internet Tendency)
“I am Lady Macbeth…” (with Michelle Ephraim, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency)
“Letters to Santa Written by Shakespeare Characters” (with Michelle Ephraim, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency)
“willslist” (with Michelle Ephraim, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency)