Pamela S. Hammonsis Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. She specializes in early modern English literature, manuscript culture, poetry, women’s writing, and theories of gender and sexuality. She is the author of Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse (Ashgate 2010), Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the Early Modern Lyric (Ashgate 2002), and numerous articles on early modern literature and culture.