Erin Maglaque is a writer and historian at the University of Sheffield. She has a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford, and has held research fellowships and visiting professorships at Oxford, Harvard, the University of Toulouse, and the National Humanities Center in the U.S. Her research has focused on the history of gender, the body, and the family. She has published award-winning research articles on these subjects, and an academic monograph about gender and family life in early modern Venice that was widely reviewed. Her essays have been translated into multiple languages. Presence is her first book.