Cyrus Mulready received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006.  He is currently working on Romancing the Globe, a book length project that connects the development of romance as a dramatic genre in early modern England to the expanding colonial and commercial interests of the period. Cyrus has been teaching at Penn since 2001, offering courses on topics ranging from representations of race in literature to travel and adventure fiction. In 2003, he received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student from the School of Arts and Sciences.