Margaret J. M. Ezell is a Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University and the Sara and John Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts. Her scholarship focuses on late 17th- and early 18th-century literary culture, early modern women writers, history of authorship, reading and handwritten culture, feminist theory, digital cultures, and electronic media.[1]
She received her PhD at Cambridge University and her BA with Honors in English and History at Wellesley College.[1]
She is the author of several books including Writing Women's Literary History [1], The Patriarch's Wife [2], Social Authorship and the Advent of Print [3], and The Oxford English Literary History Volume v: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century [4]. She has published articles in English Literary History and Shakespeare Studies.[2] In 2011, she published an article in Modern Philology entitled "Elizabeth Isham's Books of Remembrance and Forgetting."[5][3]