Dyani Taff

is Assistant Professor of English at Colby College. She writes and teaches about early modern literature, working at the intersection of gender studies and the maritime humanities, with explorations into environmental justice and premodern critical race studies. Her most recent essays are "Dark Holes and Violent Allegories in The Faerie Queene" (Spenser Studies) and "Death and Revolution: Thinking with Hester Pulter" (The Sundial). She is currently writing a book titled Gendered Seascapes and Monarchy in Early Modern English Culture.