Colleen R. Rosenfeld

Colleen Rosenfeld specializes in the study of early modern poetry and poetics. Her first book, Indecorous Thinking: Figures of Speech in Early Modern Poetics (Fordham University Press, 2018), is 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. 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.