Areas of Research/Interest: History and historiography of theatre and court festivals (16th to 17th century); performance; poetry; literature and the arts.

Fellowships/Honors: Visiting Fellowship (New College, Oxford ); Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal; Grant from the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ).

Select Publications:

Texte et représentation: les arts du spectacle (XVIe s. –XVIIIe s.) ( Texte , 33/34, 2003).

Andromède au rocher. Fortune théâtrale d'une image en France et en Italie (1587- 1712) (Olschki, 2002).

Andromède délivrée (Biblio 17, 1992).

“In fvmo dare lvcem : Les Triomphes faictz a l'entrée du Roy a Chenonceau (1560),” French Royal Entries in the Sixteenth Century: Event, Image, Text (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2007).

“From Marvel to Camp: Medusa for the Twenty-first Century,” Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music , 10, 1, April 2005.

“Une tragédie de Corneille au service de la ‘riforma melodrammatica': le Perseo de P.I. Martello,” Studi Secenteschi , 34, 1993.