Emma is a writer of books and plays. She is also a broadcaster and academic.

​Emma is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Newcastle University, a AHRC BBC New Generation Thinker, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is an expert in Shakespeare, Tudor/early modern literature, women's history, theatre history, and the history of the home and family. Emma 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. Please contact Chris with any queries about speaking and presenting.
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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,  Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England (co-edited with Simon Smith), and the introduction to the new Oxford World's Classics Measure for Measure.

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