General Editors

Scott Lucas - Curator of Tudor Artifacts

Scott received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Duke University. His specialty is the literature and culture of Renaissance England, and he has written numerous articles on the intersections of literature, politics, and religion in sixteenth-century English writings. In 2009, he published his first book, A Mirror for Magistrates and the Politics of English Reformation, a study of perhaps the most widely read work of political literature of the Tudor period. His most recent book is A Mirror for Magistrates: A Modernized and Annotated Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Denna Iammarino - Curator of Elizabethan Artifacts

Denna's research focuses on early modern literature, multimodality, digital rhetoric, and ways of reading, with special attention to how texts shape readerly engagement. More specifically, Denna's work merges my training in 16th-century literature and book history with contemporary issues of digital pedagogy and publishing to consider how changes in communication technology (like the invention of the printing press or the digital turn) impacts what it means to be an author, a text, and a reader. Denna's courses reflect these interests by juxtaposing elements of 16th-century culture with our contemporary one. In addition to regularly presenting on-going work at international conferences in 16th-century studies and rhetoric and composition studies, Denna is a co-editor of and a contributor to the critical collection entitled John Derricke’s The Image of Ireland, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne: Essays on Text and Contexts (Manchester UP, 2021) as well as a co-creator of a digital edition of The Image.

Eric Dunnum - Curator of Jacobean Artifacts

Eric is an associate professor of English at Campbell University in Buies, NC, where he teaches courses in Renaissance literature, Milton, Shakespeare, and British literary surveys. His research focuses on early modern drama, the history of performance, and critical theory. Dr. Dunnum earned his Ph.D. from Marquette University and joined Campbell’s English department in 2013.

Anthony Brano - Curator of Carolinian and Interregnum Artifacts

Anthony is an associate professor of English and Director of Writing at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, NJ, where he teaches writing as well as literature courses ranging from the Middle Ages to the Romantics. Along with his teaching duties, Dr. Brano directs the GCU writing program and is the founding director of the campus writing center. His research investigates how seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century playwrights and publishers repurposed Shakespeare’s plays as political propaganda. Anthony earned his Ph.D. from Fordham University and joined GCU's English department in 2015.

Vincent Mennella - Curator

Vincent is a Duwain E. Hughes Postdoctoral Fellow at Southern Methodist University. His dissertation, Making the Golden World: Allegories and Alchemies of Material Wealth in Early Modern Literature and Drama, explores classical and materialist frameworks in Renaissance writing. He previously studied philosophy as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, and he taught courses in philosophy, humanities, and English at a number of community colleges in the greater Houston area before beginning doctoral studies at SMU.

Ernest Rufleth - Curator

Ernest is the Mabel & Doug Maguire Endowed Associate Professor of English and Director of the School of Literature and Language at Louisiana Tech University. He earned his PhD in English Literature from Purdue University. Passionate about early modern literature, his scholarship includes work on The Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis, and literary companions in Renaissance poetry. He balances administrative leadership in honors education with teaching and research, mentoring bright students while continuing to publish in peer-reviewed venues.