Joseph Campana is a poet, critic, and scholar of Renaissance literature, with essays on Spenser, Shakespeare, Nashe, Defoe, Middleton, poetry and poetics, masculinity, and the history of sexuality in PMLA, Modern Philology, Shakespeare, Prose Studies, and elsewhere. He is the author of The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity (Fordham UP, 2012), an edited collection with Scott Maisano Renaissance Posthumanism, and three collections of poetry, The Book of Faces (Graywolf, 2005), Natural Selections (2012), which received the Iowa Poetry Prize, and The Book of Life (Tupelo Press, forthcoming). His poems appear in Slate, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, and many other venues. He has received the Isabel MacCaffrey Essay Prize, the MLA’s Crompton-Noll Award for LGB studies, and grants from the NEA and the HAA. Current projects include a study of children and sovereignty in the works of Shakespeare entitled The Child’s Two Bodies and a collection of poems entitled Live Oak. In 2012-13, he taught, in collaboration with Judith Roof, a Mellon Seminar entitled "Before and After Queer" and will lead the 2018-19 Rice Seminar "Waste: Histories and Futures" with Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe. He serves as Alan Dugald McKillop Associate Professor in the Department of English.