Coppin State University

Faculty Member, Humanities

About

I hold a Ph.D.in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M.A. in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research. My research interests include Shakespeare and the modern imagination, the Shakespearean authorship question, censorship and literature, authorship identification theory, and the Bible as literature.

I have published in Dialectical Anthropology, Notes and Queries, Review of English Studies, Cahiers Elisabethains, Rocky Mountain Review of Languages and Literature, Critical Survey, and , The Shakespeare Yearbook. Writing for a more general audience, I have published in the Washington Post among other venues. I  am the general editor of Brief Chronicles, an online peer reviewed journal of Shakespearean authorship studies (http://www.BriefChronicles.com)


My dissertation is available online at http://www.Shake-Speares-Bible.com.

My first book (written with Lynne Kositsky) is scheduled for publication by McFarland in 2012 (http://www.shakespearestempest.com).

I have also pursued advanced studies of 19th century American literature, especially the work of Herman Melville. In 2009, I was awarded a grant from the Institute for Linguistic Studies to apply biometric linguistic analysis to examine the authorship of an anonymous 19th century manuscript.

I maintain an active interest in the history of ideas, including current developments in science, especially those regarding energy production, storage, and

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