Joseph Bowling is a PhD student in the English Department at the Graduate Center, CUNY and enrolled in the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program. In addition to studying early modern literature with a focus on religious and “popular” traditions, he is also currently interested in posthumanist, ecocritical, and ontological theories that assert an equality between the human and nonhuman. Joseph is also a top-up fellow at the Graduate Center’s Committee for the Study of Religion and co-chair of the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group. He teaches at Queens College.