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Joe Moshenska is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Beaverbrook and Bouverie Tutorial Fellow at University College, Oxford. He specializes in the literature and culture of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and is the author of four books: Feeling Pleasures: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England(Oxford UP, 2014), A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby (William Heineman, 2016), Iconoclasm as Child’s Play (Stanford UP, 2019), and Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton (Basic Books, 2021). He is a former president of the International Spenser Society, and co-edited a special issue of Spenser Studies titled Companionable Thinking: Spenser With… He is currently working on intersections between criticism and creative writing and between literature and anthropology and is writing a book on the literary afterlives of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza.