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 will conduct 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.
Conference papers delivered on this research include:
“The Common Gloss’: Multilingual Biblical Reading in Paradise Lost”
13th International Milton Symposium (July, 2023)
“Cannot Women Hate?’: Divorce, Law, and Supersessionism in the Tragedy of Mariam"
Renaissance Society of America Conference (March, 2024)
“Euripides’ Abraham: Dramatic Conjecture in Reformation Readings of the Binding of Isaac”
Sixteenth Century Society Conference (November, 2024)