Alex Lewis

Alex Lewis is a Long-term Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library working in Shakespeare Studies, comparative early modern literature, and the history of sexuality. His current book project looks at one of early modern literature’s most notorious but critically neglected characters: the cuckold. It asks why this figure became the object of such potent fascination for authors and audiences from the fifteenth to seventeenth century. His articles have been published in Shakespeare Quarterly, Modern Philology, Comparative Literature, and Milton Studies. He received his Ph.D. in English from Johns Hopkins University in 2022.