Mary Frith, a.k.a. Moll Cutpurse, the original Roaring Girl.
Online I go by Roaringgirl or Sherunslunatic, both of which are geeky Renaissance drama references. In real life, I research and write about seventeenth-century women writers, hassle my students about their comma usage, hassle my husband about taking out the recycling, and hassle my friends about watching True Blood. I like incense, the Beatles, Shakespeare films with updated settings, Jon Stewart’s Queen Elizabeth impersonation, Celtic punk rock, really bad horror movies, and the Monty Python’s Flying Circus episode about the dirty fork. I dislike abstinence education, “Greatest Films of All Time” lists (because they always say Citizen Kane is better than The Godfather. As if), novels that say “a novel” on the cover, reality tv, and Christian Bale. I watch entirely too much film and television to ever be a truly successful academic, so I hope that talking about such things in a snooty, pretentious manner here kind of makes up for that.
