Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications: Royal Women, Power, and Persuasion

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Queenship and Power series

This is my first monograph and is the first study to analyze all printed book and manuscript dedications to Queen Mary I.

The Birth of a Queen: Essays on the Quincentenary of Mary I

Co-edited with Sarah Duncan

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

This collection of essays was published to coincide with Mary’s 500th birthday, as an effort to reconstruct Mary’s life and reputation.

The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare’s Queens

Co-edited with Kavita Mudan Finn

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Queenship and Power series and Handbook series

A collection of twenty-five chapters that cover the spectrum of fictional and historical queens present in Shakespeare’s plays.

JOINT WINNER OF THE 2020 ROYAL STUDIES JOURNAL BOOK PRIZE

Princesses Mary and Elizabeth Tudor and the Gift Book Exchange

ARC Humanities Press, 2021

Gender and Power in the Premodern World series

This is the first book to offer a comparison of these two famous Tudor queens as princesses, suggesting that their early lives need to be more closely examined together. It offers a detailed case study of the four extant dedications that Elizabeth Tudor wrote to accompany manuscript translations that she gave to Henry VIII, his then wife, Katherine Parr, and to Elizabeth’s brother Edward (VI of England) as New Year’s gifts from 1545 to 1548.

Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representation

Co-edited with Jessica S. Hower

Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

Queenship and Power series

Mary in Writing forms part of a two volume set considering Queen Mary I and writing. It explores representations of Mary I in writing, literature, and other textual sources.

Co-winner of the 2023 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender Collaborative Project Award

Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction

Co-edited with Jessica S. Hower

Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

Queenship and Power series

Writing Mary I is the second volume in a two volume set considering Queen Mary in writing. It explores Mary from a foreign perspective, as well as modern fictional perceptions of the queen.

Co-winner of the 2023 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender Collaborative Project Award

Mid-Tudor Queenship and Memory: The Making and Re-making of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I

Co-edited with Jessica S. Hower

Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Queenship and Power series

This book explores (mis)representations of Lady Jane Grey and Mary I, placing Jane’s attempted accession and Mary I’s successful accession and reign in comparative perspective. Through ten original essays, this book considers the nature and meaning of mid-Tudor queenship as it took shape, functioned, and was construed in the sixteenth century as well as its memory down to the twenty-first, in literary, musical, artistic, theatrical, and other cultural forms.