Holly Dugan is Associate Professor of English at the George Washington University. She is the author of The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England (2011), and co-editor with Lara Farina (West Virginia University) of Intimate Senses, a special issue of Postmedieval (2012). She has written numerous articles on the role of smell in early modern literature and culture; she is currently working on Shakespeare and the Senses, a book that explores the sensory realms of early modern English theatres.