Contributors
- Contributors
Michael Bristol is Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University and a member of the Shakespeare in Performance Research Team. He has published extensively on the cultural authority of Shakespeare. His books include Carnival and Theatre: Plebeian culture and the structure of authority in Renaissance England (1985), Shakespeare’s America/America’s Shakespeare (1990), and Big-time Shakespeare (1996).
Susan Carlson, Associate Provost and Professor of English at Iowa State University, is currently researching late-nineteenth century and early-twentiethcentury London theater and the connections between production of Shakespearean comedies and suffrage theater.
Roger Chartier is Directeur d’Études at L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Annenberg Visiting Professor in History at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent books in English are A History of Reading in the West, edited by Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier (1999) and Publishing Drama in Early Modern Europe (1999).His next book, forthcoming in 2005 from Gallimard/Le Seuil, is titled Inscrire et effacer. Culture écrite et littérature XIe-XVIIIe siècles.
Hugh Craig is Director of the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Michelle Ephraim, Assistant Professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is the author of articles on representations of Jewish women in Elizabethan drama and is currently working on a book manuscript titled Deborah’s Kin: Playing the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage, 1558–1603.
Graham Holderness, Professor of English at the University of Hertfordshire, is the author or editor of numerous studies in early modern and modern literature and drama. His novel The Prince of Denmark was published in 2002, and a collection of his poetry titled Craeft, published in the same year, was awarded a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
David Landreth, a doctoral candidate in English at New York University, is finishing a study of coinage as exchanged in (and for) Tudor literature. [End Page 497]
Lawrence Manley, Professor of English at Yale University and author of Literature and Culture in Early Modern London (1995), is researching Lord Strange’s Men and their plays.
Russ Mcdonald, Bank of America Excellence Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has recently published Look to the Lady: Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench on the Shakespearean Stage (2005).
J. Franklin Mowery is Head of Conservation at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Martin Orkin, Professor Haver in the Departments of English and of Theatre at the University of Haifa, Israel, is author of Shakespeare Against Apartheid (1987), Drama and the South African State (1991), and Local Shakespeares: Proximations and Power, forthcoming in 2005; and editor of At the Junction: Four Plays by the Junction Avenue Theatre Company (1995) and, with Ania Loomba, of Postcolonial Shakespeares (1998).
Lois Potter is Ned B. Allen Professor of English at the University of Delaware. Her most recent publication is Othello (2002) in the University of Manchester Press’s Shakespeare in Performance series. She has edited The Two Noble Kinsmen for the Arden Shakespeare (1997) and has published widely on Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. Her current project is the volume on Shakespeare in Blackwell’s Critical Biography series.
Martha Tuck Rozett is the author, most recently, of Talking Back to Shakespeare (1994) and Constructing a World: Shakespeare's England and the New Historical Fiction (2003) and of numerous book and performance reviews.
Peter Stallybrass is Annenberg Professor of the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, where he co-directs the Penn Humanities Forum and directs the History of Material Texts. His most recent books are O Casaco de Marx (Marx’s Coat) (1999) and, with Ann Rosalind Jones, Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory (2000), which won the James Russell Lowell Prize from the MLA in 2001.He is at present working on a material history of reading and writing.
Jessica Slights is Assistant Professor of English at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where she teaches Shakespeare and Jacobean and Caroline drama; her research focuses on the domestic dimensions of early modern drama. [End Page 498]
Richard Strier, Sulzberger Professor of English at the University of Chicago, has written widely on religious poetry and...
