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  • Contributors

Bernadette Andrea (Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara) is the author of The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2017) and Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2007); editor of the critical edition English Women Staging Islam, 1696–1707 (University of Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012); and co-editor of the collections Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World (University of Nebraska Press, 2019).

Jason Busic completed his PhD in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University under the direction of Vicente Cantarino in 2009. He is Associate Professor of Spanish at Denison University where he teaches language, literature, and culture. His research focuses on the Mozarabs of medieval Iberia and the Moriscos of early modern Iberia. Dr. Busic's particular interest in these areas is the intersection of language and religious and cultural identities.

Lara Dodds is Professor of English at Mississippi State University. She is the author of The Literary Invention of Margaret Cavendish (2013) and of several essays on early modern literature, including, most recently, "Envy, Emulation, and the Problem of Romance" in ELR (2018). In addition to her work on Cavendish and early modern women's writing, Dodds also publishes on Milton's poetry, with a particular interest in Milton and adaptation. She is currently writing a book about science fictional adaptations of Paradise Lost.

Patrick Fadely is a Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, researching religion and natural philosophy in the seventeenth-century epic. He is co-editor (with Feisal Mohamed) of Milton's Modernities: Poetry, Philosophy, and History from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (2017).

Samuel Fallon is Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Geneseo. He has published articles on Philip Sidney, Robert Greene, and John Milton. His first book, Paper Monsters: Persona and Literary Culture in Elizabethan England, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2019.

Carol F. Heffernan is Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. Her published books include Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio (D. S. Brewer, 2009), The Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance (D. S. Brewer, 2003), The Melancholy Muse: Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Early Medicine (Duquesne UP, 1995), The Phoenix at the Fountain: Lactantius's "Carmen de Ave Phoenice" and the Old English "Phoenix" (University of Delaware Press, 1988) and the edition of Le Bone Florence of Rome (Manchester University Press, 1976). She has published articles in such scholarly journals as The Chaucer Review, Manuscripta, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Modern Philology, and Notes and Queries.

Ann Louise Kibbie is Associate Professor of English at Bowdoin College, specializing in the long eighteenth century. She has published essays on Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana, John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Charles Johnstone's Chrysal; or The Adventures of a Guinea; and on the representation of putrefaction in early modern waxworks.

Dianne Mitchell is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her book-in-progress, Paper Intimacies, explores the relationship between poetic form and the materiality of Renaissance manuscripts. She has published essays in Studies in Philology and English Literary Renaissance.

Ran Segev is an historian of the early modern period who focuses on the social and intellectual transformations that came with the European colonization of the Western Hemisphere. He received his doctoral degree in December 2015 from the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Since then he held postdoctoral fellowships at Tel Aviv University through the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas; the Minerva Humanities Center; and the Zvi Yavetz School of History. Presently, he is working on a forthcoming monograph which analyzes the ways in which knowledge about American nature advanced religious ideologies across Imperial Spain.

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