Emma is a writer of books and plays.

​She is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Newcastle University. Emma is an expert in Shakespeare, Tudor/early modern literature, women's history, theatre history, and the history of the home and family. She researches gender, power, and performance in early modern culture.

​She has previously taught at UCL (where she held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship), King's College London, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Shakespeare's Globe, and Brasenose College, Oxford.

Emma is represented by Chris Wellbelove at Aitken Alexander. For queries about speaking and presenting, please contact Emily Fish.
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Emma's books include ​Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies: Violence in the Early Modern Home (co-winner of the Shakespeare's Globe Book Award 2020), Teaching Shakespeare and His Sisters: An Embodied Approach,  and Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England (co-edited with Simon Smith).

Her plays include The Defamation of Cicely Lee (winner of the American Shakespeare Center's 'Shakespeare's New Contemporaries' competition 2019) and Shakespeare's Sister (winner of the Theatre Royal Haymarket's Masterclass 'Pitch Your Play' award 2016).

Emma is an AHRC BBC New Generation Thinker 2022.