His current research, on the intersection of the Renaissance stage, the sciences of the soul, and the making of early modern experience, has produced a Shakespeare Quarterly article on imagination in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and forthcoming articles on apprehension in Hamlet and the kinetics of affect in Cambises. His book in progress is on the field and function of “experience” in early modern discourse and Shakespearean drama. Adam holds a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He has taught at Chicago, at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Stanford University’s Online High School.