Kirsty Rolfe is a university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her research focuses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, in particular news, political writing, and gender. She has published articles on plague and on military news reports, and is currently working on a book about news, providence, and emotion in the Thirty Years’ War. She is also interested in scholarly editing, and is currently editing Thomas Nashe’s 'The Anatomie of Absurditie' (1589) for Oxford University Press

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