Laurence Publicover is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol, where he works on English Renaissance literature and on human-ocean relations in the early modern period and beyond. He is the author of Dramatic Geography: Romance, Cultural Encounter, and Intertheatricality in Early Modern Mediterranean Drama (Oxford University Press, 2017) and co-editor, with Susann Liebich, of Shipboard Literary Cultures: Reading, Writing, and Performing at Sea (Palgrave, 2021). Alongside Jimmy Packham, he is writing a human and literary history of the seabed to be published by University of Chicago Press.