Marie-Louise Coolahan is Professor in the School of English, Media, and Creative Arts at the University of Galway. She is the author of Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland (2010); editor of 'The Cultural Dynamics of Reception', a special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020); and coeditor, with Gillian Wright, of Katherine Philips: Form, Reception, and Literary Contexts (2018). She is Principal Investigator of the ERC -funded RECIRC project (2014–20) on the reception and circulation of women's writing.