Campbell, Mary Baine

Mary Baine Campbell is a Professor of English at Brandeis University, where she also teaches in Comparative Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies and the Creative Writing program. She is the author of The Witness and the Other World: European Travel Writing 400–1600 and Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe (which won the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize for Best Book), along with two books of poetry. More recently she has been studying early modern dreams and dream theory in English, French, Huron, Iroquois and Abenaki societies; she is at work on a related book under the title Dreaming, Motion, Meaning: Oneirics of the Atlantic World, 1550–1750.