Dr. Ritchie Kendall is Assistant Dean for Honors Carolina and an associate professor in the English and Comparative Literature Department. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1973, his M.A. from Harvard University in 1975, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1980. His research interests include English literature from 1485 to 1660, and he is currently completing a book that studies the representation of the emerging economic activity of London in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in literature.