Tanya Schmidt Morstein specializes in the literature and culture of early modern England, and her research interests include classical reception, women's writing, and intersections between literature and science. She holds a BA from Santa Clara University and an MA and PhD in English from New York University, where she was also awarded the university-wide prize for Outstanding Teaching. Prior to Caltech, she had an appointment at Stanford, where she taught literature, philosophy, and film in the Program in Structured Liberal Education. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in JMEMS (The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies) and Persuasions, among other places. Her scholarship has been recognized with the International Spenser Society's Anne Lake Prescott Prize and supported by the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Huntington Library. She is currently working on a book project about the early modern imagination.