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Dr Houghton's research focuses on early modern English literature, particularly prose fiction and the history of the novel, theatre history and book history and bibliography. Her essays have appeared in Critical Inquiry, ELH, and The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Her book in progress, He Said/She Said: Free Indirect Style Before the Novel, is about emerging methods for representing speech and thought in 16th-century English fiction. Free indirect style is associated with the novel, but it has a history that pre-dates the novel as a genre. Lacking novelistic methods (eg quotation marks), writers like George Gascoigne, John Lyly, and Thomas Nashe adapted conventions from existing forms such as the dialogue, the sonnet sequence, and the playbook to figure the transition from one consciousness to another. Focusing particularly on narrative depictions of sexual consent and sexual assault, He Said/She Said argues that this protoform of free indirect style foregrounds, with particular urgency, narration’s entanglement with the ethical stakes of understanding and giving voice to other people’s experiences.