Liza Blake (she/her)–Project Co-Lead

Liza Blake is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, with research interests in early modern literature, science, and philosophy; women writers; textual editing; and asexuality studies. With Dr. Catherine Clifford and Dr. Aley O’Mara, she is co-editing the in-process collection Early Modern Asexualities. She has also taught classes on early modern asexualities, and in 2021 organized a biweekly Asexuality Reading Group with Drs. O’Mara and Clifford. She identifies as aroace.

Jenna McKellips (she/her)–Project Co-Lead

Jenna McKellips is a PhD student at the University of Toronto, studying queer virginities, asexualities, and genders in the context of medieval drama. She is currently writing a chapter on performative asexuality and stage makeup in Elizabethan drama for Early Modern Asexualities, and she was a part of Drs. Blake, O’Mara, and Clifford’s Asexuality Reading Group. In addition to her research for the Asexuality and Aromanticism Bibliography, she works as a digital indexer for the Records of Early English Drama.

Philomena Lancione (they/them)–Research Assistant, Community Writing

Philomena Lancione is an undergraduate English student enrolled at the University of Toronto. Their scholastic interest lies primarily in the study of early modern literature, in addition to the study of Canadian literature in a more general sense. Philomena’s work was featured in the 2022 publication of With Caffeine and Careful Thought, the UTM English and Drama Department’s annual creative writing journal.

Justin Sadakhom (he/him)–Web Developer

Justin Sadakhom is an undergraduate computer science student at the University of Toronto, whose web development credits also include the Margaret Cavendish Bibliography Initiative (in concert with Liza Blake).