Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Toronto, and was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. Her work focuses on early modern drama and poetry, with a particular emphasis on Shakespeare and language. She has articles published or forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare’s Poetry; The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language; Shakespeare Survey; Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture; and Exemplaria. Her current project borrows approaches from language theory – including the areas of pragmatics, discourse analysis, and historical linguistics – to highlight the foundations of Shakespeare’s language. It takes as its focus easily-overlooked function words to examine how Shakespeare explores the expressive and rhetorical potential of everyday language.