Constance C. Relihan is dean of University College at Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to her arrival at VCU, she served as the associate provost for undergraduate studies at Auburn University and director of University College. She has been committed to the continuous improvement of the undergraduate academic experience through improving general education, strengthening academic advising, and ensuring that undergraduates are provided with the academic opportunities they need to succeed. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with an AB in English and earned both her MA and PhD in English from the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on the structural nature and cultural impact of English prose fiction written during the early modern period. She is the author of Cosmographical Glasses: Geographic Discourse, Gender, and Elizabethan Fiction (2004) and Fashioning Authority: The Development of Elizabethan Novelistic Discourse (1994) and is the editor of Framing Elizabethan Fictions: Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative Prose (1996) and coeditor of Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities (2003).