Current Projects

Apart from a handful of articles, I’m currently working on several books. The first, to be published by Penn State Press, considers the political life of an early seventeenth century Spanish "missionary" to England: Luisa de Carvajal: The Politics of an Anglo-Spanish Life. The second is  about a sixteenth century "false saint", Maria da Visitação: The Confessor and the Nun: A Story of Sanctity and Sin in Early Modern Portugal. The third is a study of the Jesuit Pedro de Ribadeneyra and his view of "holy" women:  Active and Holy: Pedro de Ribadeneyra's Saintly Women. Finally, I am writing an intellectual/political history of sixteenth century Europe through a study of the Jesuit, Robert Persons: Robert Persons Writes the Counter-Reformation: Polemics and Ideas during the Wars of Religion.  When I’m done with these I hope to develop a project on the “experience” of history in early modern Europe and another about Italian opera during the "Age of Revolutions."

“Luisa de Carvajal, her ‘Life’, and the Place of Women in Counter-Reformation Politics,”  in 

Dominguez and Bulman, eds. Political and Religious Practice in the Early Modern British 

World (Manchester University Press, 2022), 203-219.

“But a ‘Stage-play’: A Counter-Reformation View of the Marian Church,” Journal 

of Ecclesiastical History, 72:1 (November 2020),  1-19.

“Relics and Saints: Commemoration and Memorialization of the Holy Dead”  in Philip 

Booth and Elizabeth Tingle, eds.  A Companion to Death, Burial and Remembrance in 

Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1300-1700  (Brill, 2021), 393-417.

“A Note on the Curious Case of John Bale in Spain,” The Library  21:3 (September 2020),

385-391.

“The Politics of Destroying Books.” Isabelle Fernandes, ed. Publish and Perish: The Practice 

of Censorship in the British Isles in the Early Modern Period (Vernon Press, 2020),  137-149.

“Into the Library, Into the Past: Bob Dylan’s Sense of History” Anne-Marie Mai, New 

Approaches to Bob Dylan (University Press of Southern Denmark, 2020),  233-246.

 “Traitors Respond: English Catholic Polemical Strategies Against Treason during the 

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.”  Larissa Tracy, ed. Treason: Early Modern Treachery, Betrayal, and Shame (Brill, 2019),  250-265.

“History in Action: The Case of Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s Historia ecclesiastica del 

scisma de Inglaterra” in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies, XCIII:1 (January 2016), 13-38.

“From Saint to Sinner: Sixteenth-Century Perceptions of  ‘La Monja de Lisboa’” in 

Hilaire Kallendorf, ed., A New Companion to Hispanic Mysticism (Brill, 2010),  297-322.

Blog Post: “English Martyrs on the Streets of Milan” 

Oscar Recio Morales, Ireland and the Spanish Empire, 1600-1825, in The International History Review, 33:2  (June 2011), 359-360. 

Geoffrey Parker, Imprudent  King: A New Life of Philip II  in The Sixteenth Century Journal, XLVI: 3 (2015), 829-831.

Quentin Skinner, Forensic Shakespeare, in Renaissance and Reformation, 39:1 (2016),  200-202. 

Marcus Harmes, Bishops and Power in Early Modern England, in Renaissance and Reformation, 39: 3 (2017), 184-185.

Thomas O’Connor, Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition: Migrants, Converts and 

Brokers in Early Modern Iberia,  in Irish Theological Quarterly, 82:2 (2017), 176-177.

Teresa Bela, Clarinda Calma, Jolanta Rzegocka, eds. Publishing Subversive Texts in 

Elizabethan England and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in Journal of British Catholic History,  33:4 ( October 2017), 655-657.

Spencer Weinreich, ed.  Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s ‘Ecclesiastical History of the Schism of the Kingdom of England’: A Spanish Jesuit’s History of the English Reformation, in Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, LXXXVI: 171 (2017), 219-220.

Antonio Feros, Speaking of Spain: The Evolution of Race and Nation in the Hispanic  World, in the Sixteenth Century Journal, in The Sixteenth Century Journal, XLVIII:4 (2018), 1150-1152.

Thomas McCoog, SJ, The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1598-1606 , in The Catholic Historical Review, 104:3 ( Summer 2018), 551-552.

Victor Houliston, The Correspondence and Unpublished Papers of Robert Persons, Sj: Volume 1: 1574-1588 , in British Catholic History, 34:4 (October 2019), 666-668.

Alexander Samson, Mary and Philip: The marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain , in  British Catholic History, 35:2 (May 2021), 354-357.

Liesbeth Corens, Confessional Mobility & English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe,  in the  Sixteenth Century Journal, 51:4 (Winter, 2020),  1208-1211.

Susan M. Cogan, Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and 

Coexistence, in Church History, 91:4 (2022), 933-935. 

Francis Kelly, Captain Francisco de Cuéllar: Captain Francisco de CuéllarThe Armada, Ireland, and the Wars of the Spanish Monarchy, 1578–1606 (Forthcoming, Journal of 

British Studies).