Judith Owens is Professor of English at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, where her research and teaching focus on the literature and culture of the sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries. She is the author of a monograph,
Enabling Engagements: Edmund Spenser and the Poetics of Patronage (2002), and articles and book chapters on Spenser and on Walter Ralegh. She is co-editor, with Glenn Clark and Greg Smith, of
City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City (2010).