I teach Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at St. John's in New York. Right now I'm working on early modern maritime culture, including a new book, *At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean* (2009), a gallery exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, "Lost at Sea: The Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550 - 1750" (June - September, 2010), and a work-in-progress on shipwreck narratives from Shakespeare through Defoe.I've also written books on prose romance in the age of Shakespeare (*Romance for Sale in Early Modern England*) and early modern criminal literature (*Rogues and Early Modern English Literature*).