She is the author of Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History and co-editor with Kathleen Coyne Kelly of Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Her essays appear in such journals as Semiotic Inquiry, Genre, College English, Renaissance/Reformation, She serves on the Executive Board of the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University and co-chairs the Women and Culture in the Early Modern World Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. She is currently finishing a book manuscript provisionally entitled “Begetting Crimes,” a study of the criminalization of female productive and reproductive labor in 17th-century English print culture.