Bernadette Andrea (PhD, Cornell University) is a Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she was also the chair of the Department of English, Classics, and Philosophy. Her research and teaching interests include Renaissance/early modern studies, women's studies, literary and cultural theory; interactions between Islam and the West in the early modern period, early modern discourses of empire, postcolonial approaches to the early modern; and contemporary women’s writing from the Islamic world. Her recent books include English Women Staging Islam, 1696–1707 (Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, 2012); Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds, with Linda McJannet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); and Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2007).