Ilona has recently retired as Clarke Professor of English at Williams College where she taught a wide range of courses from Shakespeare and Renaissance literature to interdisciplinary courses on happiness, the role the senses in poetry, imagining immigrants, women’s and gender studies, and the green world. She is the author of Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship and Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch and the editor of the Penguin Selected Poetry of John Donne, and Collected Poetry of John Donne, and most recently Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus in Manuscript and Print.