Rhema Hokama received her PhD in English literature from Harvard University and is Assistant Professor of English literature at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), where she teaches classes on Shakespeare, Milton, lyric poetry, and global literature. Her academic work has been published or is forthcoming in Modern Philology, Shakespeare Quarterly, Milton Studies, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Multicultural Shakespeare, and
Parergon. She recently completed a second book project about how the Reformation gave rise to new frameworks for thinking about national, political, and religious inclusion in early modern England and the Dutch Republic.