Julie Crawford is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published on a wide range of early modern authors, from Shakespeare,  Fletcher, and Sidney to  Cavendish, Wroth and Clifford, and on topics ranging from the history of reading to the history of sexuality. She is the author of a book on cheap print and the English reformation, called *Marvelous Protestantism* (2005) and the recently  completed *Mediatrix: Women and the Politics of Literary Production in Early Modern England* which will appear in early 2013. She is currently completing a book entitled Margaret Cavendish’s Political Career.