Amanda Pipkin received a B.A. from Wake Forest University, a M.A. from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey. Her dissertation research explores the ways literate members of the Dutch Republic used a language of sexual violence to express and negotiate power. Through depictions of rape in literature, art, religious advice, and legal documents the early modern Dutch asserted occasionally contradictory versions of national, religious, and social identification. Her additional research interests include the ways in which tobacco use helped shape early modern subject formation along national, class, and gendered lines and also an exploration of the lives and works of a particular group of women living in seventeenth century Amsterdam who often ran their own businesses, remained single, and wrote plays for the Dutch National Theatre, including Katharine Lescailje, Cornelia van der Veer, and Catherina Questiers.