Marie H. Loughlin is Associate Professor of English literature at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her publications include Hymeneutics: Interpreting Virginity on the Early Modern Stage (1997), Early Modern Women Writers Engendering Descent (2022), Same-Sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550-1735 (editor, 2014), and The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose (co-editor, 2011).