Notes on the Editors
Marlene Dirschauer
is an English literature scholar. Formerly an assistant professor at Humboldt University Berlin, she is currently a member of the research unit Spiritual Intermediality in the Early Modern Era at the University of Hamburg. She has two primary areas of expertise: one is British modernism, with a particular focus on ecocriticism and ecofeminism; the other is early modern devotional poetry, wherein she examines the intersections between theology and literature. Dirschauer is the author of Modernist Waterscapes: Water, Imagination and Materiality in the Works of Virginia Woolf (2023).
Marc Föcking
is Professor of Romance Studies (Italian and French Literature), Deputy Spokesperson of the research training group Interconfessionality in the Early Modern Period (2012–2024) and Principal Investigator in the research unit Spiritual Intermediality in the Early Modern Era at the University of Hamburg. His main research fields are early modern Italian and nineteenth-century French literature. He has written books on Italian spiritual poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Rime sacre und die Genese des barocken Stils, 1994) and on French novels and medical knowledge in the nineteenth century (Pathologia litteralis. Wissenschaftliches Erzählen und erzählte Wissenschaft, 2002). Föcking’s latest publications are Capricci Luterani? Michelangelo artista e poeta nel contesto del dibattito religioso del Cinquecento (ed. with Christine Ott, Hans Aurenhammer and Alessandro Nova, 2023); A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento (ed. with Florian Mehltretter, Susanne A. Friede and Angela Oster, 2023); and Die ‚ewige Wunde‘. Beiträge zu einer Kulturgeschichte unheilbarer Wunden in der Vormoderne (ed. with Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, 2023).
Rogier Gerrits
is a postdoctoral researcher in Romance studies at the University of Hamburg, where he is a member of the research unit Spiritual Intermediality in the Early Modern Period. During the fall semester of 2023, he was Visiting Scholar in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. His current research projects include an investigation of the medial reproduction of the miraculous in early modern France and the function of intermediality in early modern French spiritual poetry. His publications include Zwischen mystere cachez und parole pure. Allegorie, Allegorese und Interkonfessionalität in der französischen geistlichen Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit (2022); Reformation(en) in der Romania? Zur Frage der Interkonfessionalität in den romanischen Literaturen der Frühen Neuzeit (2020, ed. with Daniel Fliege); and Interkonfessionalität in der Frühen Neuzeit. Kontexte und Konkretionen (2018, ed. with Luisa Coscarelli and Thomas Throckmorton).
Alec Ryrie
is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University, Emeritus Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include The Gospel and Henry VIII: Evangelicals in the Early English Reformation (2003), The Origins of the Scottish Reformation (2006), The Sorcerer’s Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England (2008), The Age of Reformation (2009, 2017, 2024), Being Protestant in Reformation Britain (2013), Protestants (2017) and Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (2019). His history of global Protestant missions in the early modern period will be published in 2026 as The World’s Reformation.