Jayne Elisabeth Archer’s research interests are alchemy, science and the pseudo-sciences in early modern literature. She is general editor of John Nichols’s The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: A New Edition of the Early Modern Sources, 5 vols (OUP, 2014), and has edited two essay collections, The Progresses, Pageants and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I (OUP, 2007) and The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court (MUP, 2010). Her most recent book, co-authored with her current collaborators, is Food and the Literary Imagination (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014).