The Hamlet Syndrome (with Henry F. Fradella) in Law, Culture, and the Humanities, available online now; forthcoming in print. Thanks to my co-author, Hank Fradella, for an excellent collaboration.

Bringing together legal, literary, and cultural studies, this article builds from a close reading of madness in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet to some psycho-social...

The Word 'Criminology': A Philology and a Definition

This essay looks into the past of criminology as a way to think about its future. I take a philological approach to the word criminology, looking at...

If your idea has legs, why not take it for a walk?

Why I Write on My Mobile Phone: A short little essay, an ode to my son and, I suppose, to Irvine.

"The Figure of Stigma in Shakespeare's Drama" was presented to the Harvard University Renaissance Colloquium. 

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to theorize a tradition in Shakespeare’s drama involving some of his greatest and most captivating characters, including (among others) Richard III, Aaron the Moor, Shylock the Jew, Edmund the Bastard, Falstaff, Thersites, and...