Alex Lewis

Alex Lewis is a long-term fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library working in comparative early modern literature and the history of sexuality.

His current book project looks at one of early modern literature’s most notorious but neglected characters: the cuckold. It asks why this figure became the object of such potent fascination for authors and audiences between the fifteenth and seventeenth century. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Shakespeare Quarterly, Modern Philology, Comparative Literature, and Milton Studies. Originally from Australia, he received his Ph.D. in English from Johns Hopkins University in 2022.