C.V.
Academic Positions
Yale University, Department of English
Mellon New Directions Fellow and Research Scholar 2009-2010
Assistant Professor 2001-2009
Assistant Director, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale U, 2004-2005
Research Fellow, Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies, 2006-2010
Education
M.S.L. June 2010, Yale Law School (via Mellon New Directions Fellowship).
Areas of study: US & Comparative Constitutional Law; The First Amendment.
Ph.D. June 2001, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of English.
A.B. Honors 1995, English, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., cum laude.
Research and Teaching Interests
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century English and American Literature; Law, History and Political Thought 1550-1789; Shakespeare; Milton; US Constitutional Law & Legal History, especially Church & State; First Amendment; Race and Ethnicity.
