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Literature. Prof. Simpson-Younger comes to us most recently from Luther College, our Iowa ELCA cousin, where she served as a visiting faculty member. She received her PhD from UW-Madison in 2012 and her research focuses on acts of watching vulnerable bodies in the early modern period. A reader at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Simpson-Younger is also very interested in questions of book history, and she  integrates manuscript evidence (including an actual sleeping  potion recipe) into many of her