J.L. McIntosh is an assistant professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She
received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University and her M.Litt from Lady Margaret Hall,
Oxford. Her dissertation on the pre-accession households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor won
one of six Gutenberg-e prizes sponsored by the American Historical Association and
Columbia University Press for dissertations on women and gender completed between
2000-2003. The dissertation was published by Columbia UP as both an e-book, available on
the Gutenberg-e website, and as a hardback edition in 2009. She is currently working on
her second book which will focus on Mary I.
