I took my BA in English Language and Literature at Manchester University, moving to King’s College London for my MA and PhD. I worked at the University of Reading and Keele University, where I taught for the English, Film and Media degree programmes, before returning to King’s in September 2013.

I have served as President of the Marlowe Society of America and Co-Director of the Shakespeare Centre London. I am currently Website Officer for the Malone Society. I will serve as Vice-President of the Shakespeare Association of America in 2025-26 and President in 2026-28.

I have been a co-investigator on three large-scale funded research projects: ‘Ages and Stages: The Place of Theatre in Representations and Recollections of Ageing’ (AHRC, 2009-12); ‘Before Shakespeare’ (AHRC, 2016-18); and ‘Engendering the Stage: The Records of Early Modern Performance’ (Leverhulme Trust, 2020-3).

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Shakespeare and early modern literature
• theatre history and early modern archives
• textual editing
• literary genre, form and adaptation
• early modern gender, childhood and ageing studies

I am currently writing a new history of the Globe and Blackfriars, the playhouses in which Shakespeare had a financial stake. My book investigates the lives of men and women whose labour sustained the construction of early modern playhouses and their use as performance venues; the circumstances in which women and children acquired and profited from shares in the playhouses; and the ways in which the playhouses were tied to the early modern colonial project through shared patronage networks, the circulation of commodities and the direct investment of playhouse sharers in colonial projects. For a taste of my work on the interconnected histories of women, trade, colonisation and early modern playhouses for ‘Engendering the Stage’, please see these blog-posts on ‘Women’s Investment and Performance at the Fortune Playhouse’ and ‘Frances and Judith: Parallel Lives’. Alongside this, I am finishing an edition of The First Part of Henry IV for the Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series. I have supervised PhDs on early modern childhood, drama and the law, actor-training, history plays, and the representation of race, kinship, gender, disability, the body and the emotions.

For more details, please see my full research profile.

Teaching

I contribute to undergraduate modules on Shakespeare, Jacobean drama, premodern race and gender, and early modern literary culture. At MA level I teach seminars dealing with textual studies, editing, theatre history, gender, early modern drama and the afterlives of Shakespeare on screen. I periodically convene the MA in Shakespeare Studies: Text and Playhouse, taught with Shakespeare's Globe.

Expertise and public engagement

I have worked extensively with theatre organisations such as Shakespeare’s Globe and the New Victoria Theatre, Newcastle-Under-Lyme. Recent public engagement events and interactions include:

• Appearances on episodes of BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time on Thomas Middleton (2025) and Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1 (2026)
• ‘Research in Action’ workshops on gesture, gender and race (2018), editing the plays of John Fletcher (2022) and ‘Marlowe in Repertory’ (2024) at Shakespeare’s Globe
• Public-facing online talk on ‘Women and Playhouse Management for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (2024)

I would be happy to talk to the media on any issues connecting with my research or teaching.

Selected publications

• ‘“Masters of their proper goods”: Company Politics and Folio Publication, 1616-1652’, Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare, 42 (2024)
• Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2020)
• Thomas Dekker, William Rowley and John Ford, The Witch of Edmonton, ed. Lucy Munro, Arden Early Modern Drama (Bloomsbury, 2016)
• Archaic Style in Early Modern Literature, 1590-1674 (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
• Children of the Queen’s Revels: A Jacobean Theatre Repertory (Cambridge University Press, 2005)