Maria Zytaruk (Ph.D. Toronto) specializes in seventeenth-century literature. She has published articles on such figures as John Evelyn and Robert Hooke. She is currently at work on two book projects: the first examines the rhetoric and practice of seventeenth-century collecting, while the second focuses on Milton, Virgil, and issues of genre. Her most recent publications include an essay, "Cabinets of Curiosities and the Organization of Knowledge" (University of Toronto Quarterly Winter 2011, 80.1 pp. 1-23) and the essay, "Mary Delany: Epistolary Utterances, Cabinet Spaces, & Natural History," in the refereed volume, Mrs. Delany and her Circle (Yale University Press, 2009).