She incorporates early modern recipes into her teaching to contextualize the period’s literature within the history of the body and history of the emotions. In addition to these contexts, her research focuses on lyric poetry, material cultures, and the history of the book. She is completing a book manuscript entitled “Marginal States: Writing Lost Consciousness in the English Renaissance” which demonstrates how threshold states of consciousness were assimilated in early modern literary representations to facilitate experiments with form and genre.