Mark Rankin, Professor of English at James Madison University, is a specialist in the History of the Book during the English Renaissance and Reformation. He is the Principal Investigator of a major NEH-funded project to produce new scholarly editions of the writings of William Tyndale (c.1495-1536). He is also producing new scholarly editions of the mid-Tudor dramatist and scholar John Bale and the mid-Tudor poet William Forrest, both for the Renaissance English Text Society. He is co-editor of Henry VIII and his Afterlives: Literature, Politics, and Art (Cambridge, 2009) and The Elizabethan Catholic Underground: Clandestine Printing and Scribal Subversion in the English Counter-Reformation (forthcoming Brill, 2022). He is also contributing editor of Sermons at Paul’s Cross, 1521-1642 (Oxford, 2017). He has held research fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Newberry Library, Renaissance Society of America, and the Huntington Library, and his work has appeared in English Literary Renaissance, Erasmus Studies, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, The Library, Renaissance Quarterly, Sixteenth Century Journal, Studies in English Literature, and more. He is also Editor of the bi-annual interdisciplinary Reformation studies journal Reformation. He has co-directed three previous NEH Summer Seminars for College and University Teachers. He holds an appointment to the Editorial Board of Renaissance Studies and a seat on the Council of the Renaissance English Text Society.

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