Clarissa Chenovick

was a 2019-2020 Folger Mellon Long-Term Fellow and is an Assistant Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, where she teaches courses on early modern poetry, prose, and drama. She has published articles in The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, English Literary History, and The Huntington Library Quarterly. Her current book project, “Reading to Weep: Penitence, Embodied Reading, and Spiritual Cure in England, 1350-1670” examines penitential texts and reading practices across the divide of the English Reformation to illuminate early modern physiologies of reading and the role of the body in religious devotion.