Dr Münire Zeyneb Maksudoğlu completed her BA in English at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). She did her master's at Lincoln College, Oxford through Middlebury College BLSE program. She taught and studied at the University of Sussex where she received her D.Phil in English Literature. Her CIRS funded research considered Anglo-Ottoman encounters on the page and on the stage in Early Modern England. Her research interests include Renaissance Drama, histories of diplomacy and material culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She is a member of Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) and co-editor of Islam in Victorian Liverpool: An Ottoman Account of Britain’s First Mosque Community (Claritas, 2021).