Kate De Rycker

is a research associate at the University of Newcastle as part of the AHRC funded Thomas Nashe Project, for which she will be editing Nashe’s Terrors of the Night. She has published articles on the reception of one of Europe’s first professional writers, Pietro Aretino in Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World (Brill, 2015) and Literature Compass (vol.12, 6, 2015) and her current work builds on this by examining the development of the professional author in the Elizabethan period.