My key contributions in the field of early modern studies focus on the ways in which early modern women used their writing to intervene in the literary, social, political and religious cultures of sixteenth and early seventeenth century England, Scotland and France. I have a particular interest in the forms in which women made such interventions, and am a leading international expert on the sonnet, the sonnet sequence, marginal annotation and complaint, as well as on the reception of early modern women’s writing from the sixteenth century to the present. This work is at the forefront of what is known as the material turn in early modern studies, scholarship that attends to the material forms in which early modern writing was produced, circulated, transmitted over time, and read. My research projects always combine formal, material and theoretical approaches with digital methods, exploring how digital forms can make us view the past in new ways. I am interested in the intersection of digital humanities with traditional literary scholarhip, and my current research includes scholarship on digital editing, archival longevity, and new bibliographical tools for the digital age.
