Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg gained her PhD in Cultural History from the University of Turku in Finland. She has held research fellowships at the University of Turku, University of Helsinki and Birkbeck College, University of London. She now holds a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from the Academy of Finland and is a Fellow at The School of History, Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination: A Scattered Nation (Ashgate, 2012). Her most recent article “In the Company of Franks: British Identifications in the Ottoman Levant, c. 1600” will appear in the next issue of Studies in Travel Writing. Interested in early modern travel, cross-cultural encounters and travel writing, she is currently writing a new monograph (tentatively) entitled British Encounters in the Levant: Ethnic and Religious Identities, 1580-1700, and is a visiting scholar at the NYU Medieval and Renaissance Center until the end of November.