Dr. Jacqueline Vanhoutte specializes in Renaissance drama, including Shakespeare, as well as in literature associated with the Tudor monarchs. Currently she is working on a book about Shakespeare and Elizabeth I. Dr. Vanhoutte published her first book, Strange Communion: Motherland and Masculinity in Tudor Plays, Pamphlets, and Politics with the University of Delaware Press in 2003. Her other publications include a book co-authored with Laurel Amtower, entitled A Companion to Chaucer and his Contemporaries (Broadview, 2009), and essays in collections and journals like ELR: English Literary Renaissance, Philological Quarterly, Comparative Drama, and SEL.