PhD, is a Long-Term Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington,
D.C. Her research on travel discourse and the body in Early Modern English and Hispanic literature and culture considers the intersections of empire, nationalism, race, gender, and space. This work has been generously supported by the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Newberry Library, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, and the Mellon Mays Fellowship. Previously, her work has been published in Renaissance Quarterly and is forthcoming in the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies.