Catharine Gray

Catharine Gray is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She is the author of Women Writers and Public Debate in Seventeenth-Century Britain (Palgrave, 2008). In addition to several articles on seventeenth-century women writers and politics in ELH and ELR, Gray’s recent essays are forthcoming in the edited collections, Gender Matters and Violent Masculinities. These essays are part of her new book project, “Unmaking Britain: Poetry, Politics, and War in the Seventeenth Century,” which analyzes the effects of the material realities and journalistic representations of civil war on poetic imaginings of state and nation. She is also currently co-editing a collection on John Milton, titled Milton Now.