Isabel Calderón-López is a full-time lecturer at the University of Cádiz (Spain), where she teaches English literature primarily. In 2002 she completed a Ph.D. on scepticism and epistemology in The Lady Falkland: Her Life and Elizabeth Cary?s The Tragedy of Mariam. Her research and teaching interests lie in gender and genre in Renaissance and seventeenth-century women?s writing, with particular emphasis on their involvement in drama. Her current research interest focuses on early modern conventual writing. She has published articles on Elizabeth Cary, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Sidney, Mary Stuart, and Margaret Cavendish.