Keith M. Botelho

Keith M. Botelho, Professor of English at Kennesaw State University, attended Saint Anselm College (B.A. 1996) and the University of New Hampshire (M.A. 2001; Ph.D. 2006). His first book, Renaissance Earwitnesses: Rumor and Early Modern Masculinity, was published in 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan. Additionally, he has published articles in such journals as Studies in English Literature, Early Modern Culture, Cahiers Elisabethains, and Comparative Drama, and his work has also appeared in scholarly collections including Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts, Object Oriented Environs, Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science, and MLA Approaches to Teaching Aphra Behn's Oroonoko. Currently, he is working on his second book-length project, entitled Little Beasts: Cultures of the Hive in Renaissance England and co-editing (with Joseph Campana) a collection of essays on insects in the early modern world, entitled Lesser Living Creatures: Insect Life in the Renaissance.