I graduated with a PhD in Medieval and Early Modern Studies from the University of Kent.  My thesis is entitled Satire and Anxieties concerning Female Sexuality and Transexuality in Late Elizabethan and Early Jacobean England.  It traces themes of gender and sexual perversion in early modern literature to reveal evidence of an extensive fear of the malleability of gender.  I am currently in discussions concerning the publishing of my monograph and I am preparing articles for submission to journals. Early modern literature dominates my research, with a particular focus upon identity, gender and sexuality.  I am intrigued by transformations in contemporary attitudes and anxieties concerning sexual behaviour.  At present, I am researching early modern concepts of place and how these representations relate to sexual identity.  I am also inspired by the potential of new technology to widen access to the literary riches of the early modern period.