Dr. Havens earned an interdisciplinary joint-PhD in Renaissance Studies and History from Yale University with a dissertation exploring the underground print culture of the Counter-Reformation during the second half of the sixteenth century, in England and on the European continent. His academic teaching and published scholarship focus on the history of the book and material texts in early modern Europe, ca. 1400-1750.<\/p>\r\n
He has authored, co-authored, and edited twelve scholarly books and exhibition catalogues, and several dozen articles and book chapters, most recently on the marginalia of the Renaissance humanist Gabriel Harvey, the early history of the Leiden University Library, the Platin-Moretus press, and a series of new entries for the\u00a0Oxford Dictionary of National Biography<\/em>\u00a0on female Catholic book smugglers and conspirators of the late 16th-century. His most recent books are, with Walter Stephens,\u00a0Literary Forgery in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1800\u00a0<\/em>(John Hopkins Press, 2018) and, with Susannah Monta and Elizabeth Patton, a large-scale study of the lives of the Elizabethan Catholic earl and countess of Arundel, Philip and Anne Howard, to be published in the University of Toronto\u2019s PIMS series,\u00a0Catholic and Recusant Texts\u00a0<\/em>in 2023. Dr. Havens is currently co-editing two other books: (1) one with Mark Rankin entitled\u00a0The Elizabethan Catholic Underground: Clandestine Printing and Scribal Subversion in the English Counter-Reformation<\/em>\u00a0(Brill, 2023); and (2) with Erin Rowe,\u00a0Women of the Book: The Spiritual Lives of Early Modern Women, 1450-1800\u00a0<\/em>(Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024).<\/p>\r\n Since 2017, Earle Havens has served as a founding co-editor, with Anthony Grafton and Ann Blair, of the\u00a0\u201cInformation Cultures\u201d monographic series of the Johns Hopkins University Press<\/a>, and has served as a reviewer and contributor to numerous juried scholarly journals\u2014Renaissance Quarterly<\/em>,\u00a0Journal of the History of Ideas<\/em>,\u00a0Modern Language Notes,<\/em>\u00a0Reformation<\/em>,\u00a0The Library, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0De Gulden Passer<\/em>\u2014and for a range of academic presses, including Brepols, Brill, the Johns Hopkins University Press, the Pennsylvania State University Press, the University of Illinois Press, and the University of Manchester Press. He serves on several editorial and advisory boards, as well, most recently for the Library of the Written Word: The Handpress World book series edited by Andrew Pettegree (Brill); the Warwick Studies in Renaissance Thought & Culture (Brepols); Early Modern Women Writers in Europe: Texts, Debates, and Genealogies of Knowledge (Brepols); the\u00a0Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Southwell<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford University Press); and the advisory board the\u00a0Universal Short Title Catalogue<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n