Kevin De Ornellas was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1975. He was raised in Belfast during the 1970s and 1980s, and was educated at Queen’s University, Belfast, during the 1990s. De Ornellas defended his PhD on animal representations in the English Renaissance before lecturing on English Literature at Queen’s, the University of Wales, Bangor, and, now, permanently, at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. He is particularly proud of his close teaching collaboration with other Renaissance specialists at Queen’s, including Mark Thornton Burnett, Ewan Fernie, Adrian Streete, and Ramona Wray, and of the revitalization of Shakespeare undergraduate teaching and postgraduate supervision that he has spearheaded at the University of Ulster. De Ornellas has published many peer-reviewed, refereed essays on representations of the early modern animal, has presented some thirty conference papers on Renaissance beasts, reviews regularly for many scholarly journals, and has also written many essays on late-twentieth-century culture as well as on his more familiar preoccupation: the early modern animal.