Jana Byars is an academic director at the School for International Training. Her research centres on sex, gender, and family construction in early-modern and modern Europe. She is the author of Informal Marriages in Early Modern Venice (Routledge, 2018), the editor of Monsters and Borders in the Early Modern Imagination (Routledge, 2018), and the translator of Girolamo Benzoni’s 1565 travel narrative The History of the New World (Penn State Press, 2017). She lives in Amsterdam.