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Jessica Grace Sparks is a senior at the University of California at Santa Barbara and majoring in English and Renaissance Studies, with an Early Modern Specialization. Her central interests include the Italian Renaissance, conduct literature, and early modern broadside ballads.

Currently, in conjunction with the English Broadside Ballad Archive and the Arnhold Undergraduate Fellows Research Program at UCSB, Jessica is taking her research on Christopher Marlowe’s ballad “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and forming it into a website that will work as an interactive multimedia research tool intended to facilitate the study of both the poem and the broadside ballad of “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”.

Come Live With Me: Living the History of a Ballad
The site will be live June 2016.

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Grant is an award winning composer and lyricist working in film, tv and theatre. Credits include animated feature film Saving Santa and West End and Broadway hit One Man Two Guvnors. Represented by Maggie Rodford at Air Edel Associates. 

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