Lea Puljcan Juric received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University, where she also completed a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship. Her research interests include Renaissance drama, prose fiction, religious literature, travelogues, histories, ethnographies, cartography, material culture, and colonial and postcolonial studies. She received research fellowships from New York University, Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Newberry Library, and has published several articles on the Illyrians in Shakespeare’s plays; her latest essay, “Illyrians in Cymbeline,” is forthcoming in the fall 2012 issue of English Literary Renaissance. She is currently writing a monograph on the representations of Illyria in Renaissance England.