DR. ALEXIS BUTZNER
Dr. Alexis Butzner is a professor of English Literature and Writing at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon. She was herself a first-generation college student, and earned her MA in English from Portland State University and her PhD in English Literature from Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. A scholar of Renaissance and Medieval Literature, her interests include the history of science and medicine, printing and book history, and the development of the English language and its literary genres and forms. Her scholarly work has appeared in Early Theatre, Studies in Philology, and Early Modern Women.