Her recent book, Religion, Reform, and Women’s Writing in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2008; pbk 2010) examines the influence of women writers on religious identity and its cultural expression in the sixteenth century. She has published articles in ELR, Modern Philology, and RES on the topics of women’s writing, gender, and religious ideology. Her current book project, “ 'A fault of humour': the constitution of belief in Early Modern England" contends with the physiological and philosophical context that makes moral constitution (the framework within which religious ideology is understood) a feature of the blood. The project appreciates how the soul could be understood to have agency in physical technologies in the early modern period—and the implications of this thinking for both religious and racial identification.