About

Brooke Conti works on literature and religion in post-Reformation England. Her book, Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2014; it explores the paradoxical relationship between autobiography and polemic in an age of religious conflict. Recent or forthcoming articles include work on Shakespeare, Milton, and Donne in venues including Renaissance Quarterly, Modern Philology, and Milton Studies. Currently, she is working on a second monograph, tentatively entitled Religious Nostalgia from Shakespeare to Milton, and a scholarly edition of Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici, which she is co-editing with Reid Barbour for Oxford University Press as part of OUP’s Complete Works of Thomas Browne.

Conti’s research has been supported by short-term research fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Princeton University Library Rare Books Collection. She is also a recipient of a Distinguished Publication Award from the John Donne Society.