Jerry Brotton is a writer, broadcaster and curator. He is a professor of Renaissance studies at Queen Mary University of London. His many books include The Sale of the Late King’s Goods (2006), the bestselling A History of the World in Twelve Maps (2012) and This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World (2016). He is a BBC TV and radio presenter, podcaster, and curator of exhibitions including “Talking Maps” (2019-2020), and a Tudor exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum (forthcoming 2028-29). His latest book is Four Points of the Compass (2024).

At Princeton, Brotton will serve as a Class of 1932 Short-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of English.