Kirk Melnikoff is a Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a former President of the Marlowe Society of America. His essays have appeared in a number of journals and books, and he is the author of Elizabethan Book Trade Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture (U Toronto P, 2018). He has edited four essay collections and has recently completed editions of Selimus and James IV. He is currently editing a collection of early modern book-trade wills and working on a monograph on bookselling in early modern England.