Series Editors:

Danielle Clarke is Professor of Renaissance Literature at University College Dublin. She has published extensively on early modern women’s writing, poetry, textuality, manuscript culture and sexuality. She co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540-1700 (2022) and was the section editor for “Theories and Methodologies” for the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing (2025).

Michelle M. Sauer is Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of English and Gender Studies the University of North Dakota. She has published extensively on medieval devotional, anchoritic, and monastic texts, and gender and spatial theories. She authored Gender in Medieval Culture (2019), and co-edited Companion to Sexuality in the Medieval West (2025), and The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Women’s Writing in the Global Middle Ages (2025).

Advisory Board

Bernadette Andrea, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 

Leah de Vun, Rutgers University, USA 

Marlé Hammond SOAS, UK 

Carissa Harris, Temple University, USA 

Cordelia Heß, Aarhus University, Denmark 

Mami Kanno, Kanazawa University, Japan 

Dorothy Kim, Brandeis, USA 

Carolyn Muessig, University of Calgary, Canada 

Inês Sofia Lourenço Olaia, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Carme Font Paz, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, King’s College London, UK 

Diane Watt, University of Surrey, England, UK