Alicia Meyer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English with a certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. She received her BA and MA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has co-authored the chapter “Women and Political Power in Early Modern Europe” with Carole Levin for the Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2013). Her dissertation project examines representations of poor women and maidservants in the early modern Atlantic. Alicia is also a coordinator of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies working group for the 2018-19 academic year and the Graduate Assistant for the Penn Women's Center.