My research is located at the intersection of tragic form and Reformation scriptural hermeneutics. I am interested in how Reformed readers drew upon dramatic form and theory to help interpret the Bible, and how these hermeneutics impacted English and continental drama that adapted and explored scriptural subjects using the specific formal properties of tragedy. My dissertation conducts readings of The Tragedy of Abraham's Sacrifice (Arthur Golding's 1577 translation of Theodore Beze's Abraham Sacrifiant), Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and John Milton's Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes.
Publications:
(Forthcoming) “Abraham Agonistes: The Binding of Isaac, Luther’s Tragic Exegesis, and Arthur Golding’s Translation of Beza’s Abraham Sacrifiant.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 57.2, Spring 2027.
“The Common Gloss’: Multilingual Biblical Reading and the Name of the Tree in Paradise Lost.” English Literary Renaissance 56.2, Spring 2026.