Naomi Baker

Naomi Baker is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester. She has published widely on 17th-century women’s writing, as well as on Shakespeare and early modern literature and drama more broadly. Her first book, “Plain Ugly: The Unattractive Body in Early Modern Culture” (2010) explored representations of “ugly” bodies in early modern literature and drama. She has also published a critical edition of two of the earliest known English conversion narratives, “Scripture Women: Rose Thurgood, “A Lecture of Repentance” and Cicely Johnson, “Fanatical Reveries”” (2005).