Carla and I wanted to thank our keynote, Erika T. Lin, for a fabulous talk; our faculty members, Curtis Perry, Andrea Stevens, and Rob Barrett, for generously running panels and responding to our participants; and of course to our participants, Lee Emrich, InHye Ha, Caitlin McHugh, Sara B. T. Thiel, Mark Owen, and Ann Hubert, for sharing their thoughtful and engaging work!

Without our sponsors—the Graduate College, the Department of English, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Medieval Studies program, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Department of Classics, and Scholarly Commons—none of this would have been possible.

We would also like to thank the members of the Early Modern Reading Group for your participation throughout the year. Your curiosity and questioning spirit challenged us and without it, this conference would not exist. Thank you to Lori Newcomb and David Kay for your continued support and encouragement. We feel so fortunate for all of this support and generosity. We hope to see you again next year!

– Carla and Elizabeth