Joseph Campana is the William Shakespeare Professor of English and director of the Center for Environmental Studies at Rice University. He is author of The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity, the coeditor of Renaissance Posthumanism, and was an editor of the academic journal Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. He has also published three collections of poetry, The Book of Life, Natural Selections, and The Book of Faces.