Holly Dugan is Associate Professor of English at The George Washington University. She is the author of The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England (JHUP, 2011). She co-edited with Karen Raber the Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals (Routledge 2020), and she has edited numerous special issues of academic journals, including the “Intimate Senses,” a special issue of the journal Postmedieval 3.4 (2012) edited with Lara Farina; "Fabulous Animals," a special issue of EMC (2016) edited with Karl Steel, and "Bodies/Objects/Agents," a special issue of JNT (2019) edited with Melissa Jones. She is working on two books "Shakespeare and the Senses," which provides an introduction to sensory studies vis-a-vis Shakespeare's works, and "The Famous Ape," a book that examines the prehistory of primatology through the lives of famous apes as pets, entertainers, zoo inhabitants, and scientific test subjects.