Raymond A. Anselment, professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Connecticut, is the editor of Alice Thornton’s My First Booke of My Life, The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, and The Occasional Meditations of Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick. Besides having written numerous essays on a range of writers and issues, he is the author of three books on early modern religious prose satire, poetic responses to the conflict of civil war, and seventeenth-century literature and medicine.
Ruth Connolly is a senior lecturer in seventeenth-century literature at Newcastle University. She has published articles and book chapters on lyric poetry, textual editing, and early modern women’s writing and edited a volume of Robert Herrick’s complete poetry. She is currently coediting an edition of Ben Jonson’s poetry for the Longman Annotated English Poets series and working on a larger study of matter, form, and affect in the poetry of Hester Pulter, John Milton, and Richard Lovelace.
Julie A. Eckerle is a professor of English and Gender, Women, and sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, Morris. She is the author of Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen’s Life Writing and coeditor, with Michelle M. Dowd, of Genre and Women’s Life Writing in Early Modern England. She is currently working on a monograph on early modern women’s life writing in the Irish context and editing Calthorpe’s Chapel, a scholarly edition of seventeenth-century Englishwoman Dorothy Calthorpe’s little-known manuscript.
Anne Fogarty is a professor of James Joyce studies at University College Dublin, co-founder with Luca Crispi of the Dublin James Joyce Journal, and academic director of the Dublin James Joyce Summer School. She is coeditor of Joyce on the Threshold; Bloomsday 100: Essays on “Ulysses”; Imagination in the Classroom: Teaching and Learning Creative Writing in Ireland; and Voices on Joyce. She has edited special issues of the Irish University Review on Spenser and Ireland, Lady Gregory, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and Benedict Kiely and has published widely on aspects of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish literature, especially fiction. She is currently coediting a collection of essays on Deirdre Madden.
Amanda E. Herbert is the assistant director at the Folger Institute of the Folger Shakespeare Library, where she runs the Fellowships Program. She holds a PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University and is the author of Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain, winner of the Best Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. She edits The Recipes Project online and is a co-director for “Before Farm to Table: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures,” a $1.5 million Mellon Initiative in Collaborative Research. She is at work on her second book project, Water Works: Faith, Public Health, and Medicine in the British Atlantic.
Naomi McAreavey is a lecturer in Renaissance literature at University College Dublin and has written on women’s writing in seventeenth-century Ireland, including journal articles for English Literary Renaissance, Early Modern Women, and the Journal of the Northern Renaissance. Her edition of The Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde is forthcoming with the Renaissance English Text Society. She has related research interests in the cultural legacy of the 1641 rebellion, and she coedited, with Fionnuala Dillane and Emilie Pine, The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture.
Jason McElligott is the keeper of Marsh’s Library in Dublin. He was educated at University College Dublin and St. John’s College, Cambridge, and is a former fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He has published widely on British politics and print culture of the seventeenth century and is currently researching the Cato Street Plot of 1820 and writing a monograph on book theft in eighteenth-century Dublin.
Ann-Maria Walsh teaches in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. She obtained a PhD in English from UCD in 2017. Her areas of interest include the manuscript writings of seventeenth-century women and early modern Ireland. She is currently working on a monograph, The Daughters of the First Earl of Cork: Writing Family, Faith, Politics, and Place, and she is editing the Boyle women’s letters for the Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Amelia Zurcher is an associate professor of English and director of the University Honors Program at Marquette University. She has published Seventeenth-Century Romance: Allegory, Ethics, and Politics and many articles on early modern romance and other seventeenth-century British literature. She is completing a book manuscript on the Boyle siblings titled The Family as Intellectual Institution.