Nora is a Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the University of Essex, where she is also a member of the Centre for Theatre Research and the Gendered Violence and Abuse Research Group. She trained as an actor in her hometown of Buffalo, NY and then in Toronto before completing her MA and PhD at the University of Exeter. Now, her work is based in practice-as-research, which feeds both her scholar and performer sides. She has been published in journals such as Shakespeare Bulletin, PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research, and Humanities, and she recently edited As You Like It for the Arden Performance Editions. Her first book, Canonical Misogyny: Shakespeare’s Dramaturgies of Sexual Violence, is under contract with Edinburgh University Press. She and her husband, James, co-produce Not Another Shakespeare Podcast!, which strives to take neither itself nor Shakespeare too seriously.