Shakespeare, medieval drama, and theories and traditions of comedy and comic performance; Renaissance literature, art and history; poetry and poetics; colonial and post-colonial literature (especially Australia and West Africa).

I currently have active projects in several areas.

1. I am the editor of the play Pericles, Prince of Tyre by Shakespeare and George Wilkins for the Internet Shakespeare Editions (internetshakespeare.uvic.ca). This is a long-term project in very early stages which will produce both an old-spelling and a modern edition of this challenging play. The modern edition will also be published in a print edition by Broadview Press.

2. I am researching and writing a book MS on Shakespeare's response to the availability to the general public of his day of the Biblical scriptures in English. In particular, I am interested in what effects are produced by the incorporation of sacred text into a dramatic work, both in the dramtic and poetic texture of the play and in the resonance of the Biblical language alluded to. I have just completed work on an essay on Othello, which joins work on Richard II and on Macbeth in print. I am especially interested in exploring the notion of dramatic citation of this kind as a species of playful "profanation", in the sense developed by Giogio Agamben in several essays

3. I continue to translate Latin pyric poetry into English, following my earlier work on Ovid. I am presently working on the poems of Tibullus.