Education: B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., Emory University.

Research and interests: Shakespeare and Film, John Milton, George Eliot.

Books: George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton (2003); The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature (1991); Milton's Sonnets and the Ideal Community (1979).

Essays: "Branagh's Play with Shakespear's Play in 'Love's Labor's Lost: A Romatic Musical Comedy,'" Shakespeare Survey (forthcoming); "Dialogue in Shakespearean Offshoots", Literature Film Quarterly ; "A Space for Academic Recreation: Milton's Proposal in The Reason of Church-government"; Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England (2000); Romola and Milton: A Cultural History of Rewriting, Nineteenth-Century Literature (1998); A The Education of Milton's Good Angels, Arenas of Conflict (1997); "Milton and the Academic Sonnet," Milton in Italy (1991); "Academic Interludes in Paradise Lost," Milton Studies (1991).

Awards and honors: LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award, 2003; Alumni Professorship, 1998; Nicholson Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1993; James Holly Hanford Award for best Milton article of 1991; H.M. "Hub" Cotton Faculty Excellence Award, 1988.

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