Richard Strier is the author of The Unrepentant Renaissance from Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton (University of Chicago Press, 2011)—winner of the Warren-Brooks Prize for Literary Criticism—as well as Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts (University of California Press, 1997), and Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's Poetry (University of Chicago Press, 1983). He has coedited several interdisciplinary collections, including Shakespeare and the Law: A Conversation Among Disciplines and Professions (University of Chicago Press, 2013). Strier is the Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.