She received her B.A. (1999) and M.A. (2001) from the University of Idaho and her Ph.D. (2007) from Florida State University. Her first book, The Oxford Handbook of Thomas Middleton, co-edited with Gary Taylor, was published by Oxford University Press in the spring of 2012. She is currently revising a monograph, Velvet Women Within, which examines the boy actor’s performance of the prostitute on the early modern English stage. She is also the mother of four fabulous boys, aged 22 to 8.