Elizabeth Ann Mackay is an associate professor in the University of Dayton’s English Department, where she teaches courses in integrated humanities, Shakespeare, early modern women writers, and faith traditions in popular fictions. Her scholarly projects attend to intersecting representations of early modern rhetorics and gender, with a particular focus on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women writers. She has published articles in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Rhetoric Review, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Women’s History Today; in an innovative peer-reviewed site for digital scholarship, Women Writers in Context; two essays in collections published by Palgrave Macmillan—The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination and Remembering Queens and Kings in Early Modern France and England; and one essay in the collection, Engaging With Vocation on Campus, from Routledge. She is currently completing a book project that explores early modern mother-daughter instructional relationships and how maternity intervenes in the traditions of intellectual education, pedagogy, and rhetoric. Whilst finishing this first book, she is beginning research on a new project that explores the intersectional enterprises and rhetorics of early modern nation-making in Western Europe and women writers who were writing women’s histories during that time.