Dr. Faith D. Acker holds a PhD in Renaissance Literature from the University of St. Andrews and is the author of First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 1590 – 1790 (Routledge, 2020). Faith precepted her first Signum University course in 2011 and has, since then, lectured on Signum’s MA courses ​“Shakespeare and the Middle Ages” (2017) and ​“The Life and Times of the English Epic” (2019) in addition to teaching at the University of Sheffield (2012−13), Cornerstone Academy (2013−17), Montgomery College (2017−18), Northern Virginia Community College (2017−19) and Southeastern Louisiana University (2020−21). Her current research examines the satirical portrayals of servants and tradesmen in seventeenth-century epitaphs.