Anne Lake Prescott: Professor of English in English Renaissance

Anne Lake Prescott, Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of English, began her teaching career at Barnard College in 1967. In addition to her many degrees, Professor Prescott is the co-editor of two Ashgate series of editions of early modern texts by modern women and is co-editor of Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual.

Also a graduate of Barnard, she also studied at Columbia University, Radcliffe College, and the University of Paris. Ms. Anne Lake Prescott maintains an Academic Focus on English Renaissance, Spenser, Satire, Anglo-French relations, Renaissance humanism, and Women in the early modern period.

Anne Lake Prescott is a specialist of the English Renaissance. Professor Prescott is closely affiliated with the comparative literature program and the medieval and Renaissance studies program at Barnard College. She is currently working on David in the Renaissance and on Renaissance almanacs and calendars.

For many years she has been a trustee of the Renaissance Society of America and at one point was also president of the International Spenser Society. She is currently president of the Sixteenth Century Society. She also serves on the editorial boards for SEL, American Notes and Queries, The John Donne Journal, The Sidney Journal, Renaissance Studies, and Moreana.