Stephen Guy-Bray is Professor in English at the University of British-Columbia, Canada.

He did his honours BA at Trent University and his MA and PhD at the University

of Toronto. He is also a faculty associate in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality

and Social Justice. His representative monographs are Against Reproduction: Where

Renaissance Texts Come From (University of Toronto Press, 2009), Loving in Verse:

Poetic Influence as Erotic (University of Toronto Press, 2006), and Homoerotic Space:

The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature (University of Toronto Press, 2002). He is

currently writing a book on poetic paraphrase and essays on mid 17th-century poetry

and on Renaissance women and textual production. He is also finishing an edition of

George Peele’s The Old Wives Tale and beginning a co-written book on Milton’s early

verse. (email: Stephen.Guy-Bray@ubc.ca)