Ruth Ahnert

is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London. She researches broadly in the area of Tudor culture and writing, often using digital methods from the field of Complex Networks to study Tudor letters. Work in this area has been funded by the Folger Shakespeare Library, Stanford Humanities Center, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), and a QMUL Innovation Grant. Her first book, The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2013), explored the kinds of writing undertaken by Tudor prisoners.