She teaches introductory literature and theory courses, as well as courses in British Literature through the seventeenth century. Dr. Tvordi’s research interests include Shakespeare, Milton, lyric and epic poetry, non-public drama (the court masque, Inns of Courts plays, university performances), all of which she examines within a New Historicist framework that considers the role the rhetoric of deviance plays in narratives of nation formation in early modern England.