Mary Baine Campbell

Mary Baine Campbell is a Cambridge-based poet and scholar (of literature and the histories of travel, geography, science and utopia), as well as a climate activist.  Her publications include The Witness and the Other World, Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe and poetry collections The World, the Flesh, and Angels and Trouble, as well as the chapbook Are Sin, Disease and Death Real? She founded and for several years directed the creative writing program at Brandeis University, where she taught until 2017.  This fall she will be the Kennedy Professor of Renaissance Studies at Smith.