Mira 'Assaf

is an Assistant Professor of English with joint appointment in the Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Butler University. She is a multidisciplinary scholar, teacher, and equity practitioner working at the intersection of Premodern Critical Race, Gender, and Queer Studies. Her research explores the intersections of race-making with the politics of royal marriage, foreign queens, and border-crossing in the early modern period and in our current historical moment. She is completing her first manuscript, titled Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens, and Racial Formations in the Early Modern Period, which is under contract with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. In 2023-2024, she was a Folger Shakespeare Library Long-Term Fellow.