My research investigates the organization of written knowledge as it regulates and shapes the literary imagination over time. Put broadly, I am interested in the history of structures that readers and writers depend on to make meaning: material structures such as page layout, book bindings, and libraries, but also theoretical structures such as literary form and genre, canons, and classroom syllabi. In my writing and teaching, I gravitate to the early modern period in England and Europe, where a series of firsts – the first printing presses, the first public theaters, the first public libraries – had thrown into question the right way to organize knowledge, and to define literacy and creativity. My first book, Bound to Read: Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature (Penn, 2013), explored the physical malleability of early printed literary works in the hands of readers and in the custody of institutions. I am currently completing a public-facing book called Shakespeare on the Page: Texts, Books, and Readers for the Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series (Bloomsbury, 2022), and I am working on a book-length study of the institution of the library and the idea of literary history. At UW, I co-direct the Textual Studies Program, which convenes an annual Material Texts Colloquium and a graduate certificate in manuscript, print, and digital cultures, and I serve as Associate Editor for Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History.