Sometime British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in History,  Pembroke College, Oxford.

Publications include ‘“All our books do be sent into other countreys and translated”: Henrician polemic in its international context’ in English Historical Review 121 (2006); (as joint author) ‘Thomas Wilson’s Demosthenes and the politics of Tudor translation’, in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 12.1 (2005); ‘The Role of Ambassador and the Use of Cipher’, State Papers Online II (2009); Renaissance and Reform: The Careers of Sir Richard Morison c. 1513-1556 (2010); ‘1535’, in J. Raymond (ed.), The Oxford History of Popular Print (2011); ‘Anne Boleyn’s Coronation’, in The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama, ed. T. Betteridge and G. Walker (Forthcoming); and ‘Henry VIII’s Authority and Printed Polemic’, in Authority in European Book Culture, ed. P. Bromilow (Forthcoming)

Research and teaching interests range widely in British and European early modern history, especially Tudor diplomacy, humanism and propaganda, and the careers of Sir Richard Morison.