Publications

MONOGRAPHS

The Many Lives of Elizabeth Woodville: Poor Shadow, Painted Queen. Routledge. Under Contract.

Global Medievalism: An Introduction, with Helen Young. Cambridge Elements Series. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

The Last Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre, and Historiography 1440-1627. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Our Shakespeare, Ourselves: The pleasures (and pitfalls) of fannish reading,” Transformative Works & Cultures 43 (2024). Note: TWC is an open-access journal.

“‘Many straunge sygnes and tokyns’: The Affective Power of Thomas Malory’s Palomydes,” Arthuriana 31.2: Race, Equity, and Justice in Arthurian Studies (2021): 108-23.

“Blood in the Moonlight: Hannibal as Queer Noir,” with EJ Nielsen, Quarterly Review of Film & Video 35.6 (2018): 568-82.

“Fannish Paratexts and their Premodern Roots,” The Journal of Fandom Studies, 5.2 (2017): 157-74.

“Bloodlines and Blood Spilt: Historical Retelling and the Rhetoric of Sovereignty in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy,” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 30 (2017): 210-25. (GoogleBooks Link; please note that some pages are missing.)

“Exit, pursued by a fan: Shakespeare, Fandom, and the Lure of the Alternate Universe,” with Jessica McCall, and “Pickled Red Herring,” Critical Survey 28.2: Creative/Critical Shakespeares: 27-38, 45-66. NOTE: This issue of Critical Survey was expanded and republished as Shakespeare & Creative Criticism (Berghahn, 2019).

“Tragedy, Transgression, and Women’s Voices: The cases of Margaret of Anjou and Eleanor Cobham,” Viator 47.2 (2016): 277-303. (link)

“History Play: critical and creative engagement with Shakespeare’s tetralogies in transformative fanworks,” Shakespeare 13.3 (2017): 210-25. Published online on 16 March 2016. (link) (PDF: KVMFinn – History Play (2016))

EDITED COLLECTIONS & SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES

Special Section on Shakespeare and Anti-Fandom, with Johnathan Pope in Transformative Works & Cultures 43 (2024).

Becoming: Genre, Queerness, and Transformation in NBC’s Hannibal, with EJ Nielsen (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2019).

The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare’s Queens, with Valerie Schutte (New York: Palgrave, 2018).      ** WINNER: 2020 Royal Studies Journal Book Award

Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).

Space and Place in Children’s Literature, 1789 to the Present, with Maria Sachiko Cecire, Hannah Field, and Malini Roy (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015).

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Determined to prove a villain’: Richard III and the ‘Tudor Myth’,” The Tudors, Myth, and Memory: Embroidered Truths and Outright Falsehoods that Influence Popular Belief, ed. William B. Robison and Valerie Schutte (New York: Palgrave, forthcoming).

“The Dead Ladies Club, or: The pleasures and pitfalls of fannish reading” (Part 2), Medievalism and Reception, ed. Ellie Crookes and Ika Willis (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2024).

“Teaching the Global Middle Ages Through Popular Culture,” with Helen Young, Teaching the Global Middle Ages, ed. Geraldine Heng (New York: Modern Language Association, 2022).

“Shakespeare and Adaptation: An Annotated Bibliography,” The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation, ed. Diana E. Henderson and Stephen O’Neill (London: Bloomsbury, 2022).

“Queen of Sad Mischance: Medievalism, ‘Realism’, and the case of Cersei Lannister,” Queenship and the Women of Westeros: Female Agency and Advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire, ed. Zita Eva Rohr and Lisa Benz (New York: Palgrave, 2019).

“Exit, pursued by a fan,” with Jessica McCall, and “Pickled Red Herring,” Shakespeare and Creative Criticism, ed. Rob Conkie and Scott Maisano (New York: Berghahn Books, 2019).

“‘Nothing hath begot my something grief’: Invisible Queenship in Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy,” with Lea Luecking Frost, The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespeare’s Queens, ed. Kavita Mudan Finn and Valerie Schutte (New York: Palgrave, 2018).

“‘Men go to battle, women wage war’: Gender Politics in The White Queen and its Fandom,” Premodern Rulers, Postmodern Viewers, ed. Janice North, Elena Woodacre, and Karl Alvestad (New York: Palgrave, 2018).

“‘Of whom proud Rome hath boasted long’: Intertextual Conversations and Popular History,” Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England, ed. Kristen A. Bennett (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015). (PDF: KVMFinn – Intertextual Conversations and Popular History (2015))

“‘A Queen in Jest’: Queenship and Historical Subversion in Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI and Richard III,” Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture, ed. Alessandra Petrina and Laura Tosi (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). (PDF: KVMudan – A queen in jest (2011))

“‘So mutable is that sexe’: Queen Elizabeth Woodville in Polydore Vergil’s Anglica Historia and Sir Thomas More’s History of King Richard the Third,” The Rituals and Rhetoric of Queenship: Medieval to Early Modern, ed. Elizabeth Oakley-Brown and Louise Wilkinson (Dublin: Four Courts, 2009). (PDF: KVMudan – So mutable is that sexe (2009))