Department of English

Penn News features Professor Melissa Sanchez as she describes her interest in the language and history of 16th- and 17th-century poetry and what it can reveal about issues of gender, sexuality and romance both past and modern-day. The article highlights her upcoming collection of essays, Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies: Gender, Race and Sexuality, which she co-edited with Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson Professor of English at Penn.