Rebecca Olson

Rebecca Olson is a professor in the School of Writing, Literature and Film at Oregon State University, where she teaches early modern poetry and drama. Her research examines literature, the imagination, and how readers and playgoers picture one another. She has also published on Renaissance tapestries in early modern writing and co-edits... no, she oversees a student-edited online edition of Romeo and Juliet. Her 2025 monograph, Early Modern Reading and the Imagined Self, was published by Edinburgh University Press. Her earlier book, Arras Hanging (2013, University of Delaware Press), studies the role of Renaissance tapestries in early modern literature and drama. Her articles have appeared in journals including PMLA, Pedagogy, Word & Image, and Modern Philology.