Her research interests include Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, early modern colonialisms and global transculturation, feminist theory/women’s writing, early modern technology and culture, and psychoanalytic and neurocritical approaches to literary studies. Her new book Group Identity in the Renaissance World was published by Cambridge University Press this summer. Her edition of Shakespeare's Cymbeline, part of the New Kittredge Shakespeare Series, is slated to be published next year by Focus/Pullins. She is also the author of Old Masters, New Subjects: Early Modern and Poststructuralist Theories of Will (1995), as well as numerous articles on medieval and Renaissance authors, and on literary criticism and theory.