Colleen R. Rosenfeld

Colleen Rosenfeld specializes in the study of early modern poetry and poetics. Her book, Indecorous Thinking: Figures of Speech and Early Modern Poetics, is a study of figures of speech and a defense of eloquence—not as a sign of the aesthetic but as the source of a particular kind of knowledge closely aligned with the emergent field of vernacular poesie (forthcoming Fordham University Press, 2017).  Rosenfeld’s essays have appeared in  ELH, English Literary Renaissance, and Modern Philology, and the edited collection Othello: State of Play.  She is currently at work on a second book titled Poetry and the Potential Mood: the Forms of Fiction in Early Modern England.