Chapman Professor and Department Chair in English at the University of Tulsa.
He teaches regularly at the Bread Loaf School of English. Educated at Harvard, Cambridge, and Yale, he is the author of Shakespearean Pragmatism: Market of His Time (Chicago, 1993), coauthor of Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries (Blackwell, 2014) and Cambridge Guide to World Shakespeares (Cambridge UP, 2016) and an editor of English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology (New York: 2002). He's an editor of the forthcoming Shakespeare and Montaigne (Edinburgh, 2020). He has articles on a variety of topics in such journals as PMLA, Modern Philology, SEL, YJC, English Studies in Africa, Pretexts, Shakespeare Quarterly, Exemplaria, Shakespearean International Yearbook, and Shakespeare Survey, and has essays in many edited collections. The recent one is “Hearing Voices: Signal and Urban Noise in Augustine’s Confessions and Shakespeare’s Coriolanus,” Shakespeare Survey 73 (2019).