Melissa E. Sanchez is the author of three books: Erotic Subjects: The Sexuality of Politics in Early Modern English Literature (Oxford UP, 2011); Shakespeare and Queer Theory (Bloomsbury Arden “Shakespeare and Theory” series, forthcoming January 2019); Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition (forthcoming in spring 2019, NYU Press, "Sexual Cultures" series). She is also the co-editor of three volumes of essays: a special issue of Spenser Studies on "Spenser and 'the Human’” (2015); Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies: Gender, Race, and Sexuality (Routledge, 2016); and a special issue of the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies (JEMCS) entitled "Desiring History and Historicizing Desire"(2016). She has recently begun two new book-length projects: "What Were Women Writers?" and "Feminism Now: Method and Affect."
Interests
Early Modern Literature, Comparative Race and Empire Studies, Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Psychoanalytic Studies