Alison Chapman (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1996), Assistant Professor of English, specializes in Renaissance literature and culture; her specialization is in poetry and prose of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries although she also teaches and researches Shakespearean drama. Her particular areas of interest are Spenser, Donne, Milton, Reformation history, and the history of the book. She has published articles in Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 and in Renaissance Quarterly. She is currently researching the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer and working on a book called Pocket Time: Early Modern Almanacs and Postmodern Temporality. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Renaissance Poetry and Prose, Shakespeare, Milton, and English literature to the 18th century.