Title
Edgar W.B. Fairchild Professor of Literature (1981); Director, Colgate University Press (2002- )

Degree
BA West Chester State College 1975; MA, PhD University of Michigan 1976, 1981

Specialties
Theater history, Shakespeare, Renaissance literature

Interests
Renaissance theater history and drama, biography, social and economic history (1500-1650)

Selected Publications
The Merchant of Venice (Routledge, forthcoming, 2003), Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama (Routledge, 1998), Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents (Routledge, 1996), Edward Alleyn: Elizabethan Actor, Jacobean Gentleman (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 1994), Gloriana's Face: Women, Public and Private in the English Renaissance (Harvester/Simon and Schuster, 1992); "The Lord Chamberlain's Men" (in A Companion to Shakespeare, Blackwell, 1999), "Must the Devil Appear?: Audiences, Actors, Stage Business" (in A Companion to Renaissance Drama, Blackwell, forthcoming), "The Patronage Network of Philip Henslowe and Edward Alleyn," Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 2001), "Cheerful Givers: Henslowe, Alleyn, and the 1612 Loan Book to the Crown, Shakespeare Studies, 2000), "Tamburlaine and Edward Alleyn's Ring" (Shakespeare Survey, 1994), "Philip Henslowe, Simon Forman, and the Theatrical Community of the 1590's" (Shakespeare Quarterly, 1993), numerous articles in Shakespeare Quarterly, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Survey

Distinctions
Seminar Leader, "Rewriting the Elizabethan Stage," The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. (Spring, 2001), Editorial Board, Shakespeare Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Honorary Fellow, English Faculty, University of Dundee, Scotland; NEH Grants 1988-89, 1983, ACLS Grant 1990, Rackham Fellow, University of Michigan 1979-81