Contributors
- Contributors
Dan Brayton is Assistant Professor of English and American Literatures and teaches literature and environmental studies at Middlebury College.
Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience (1997), Constructing "Monsters" in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (2002), and Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (2007) and is the editor or coeditor of numerous other works.
Robert A. Erickson is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Language of the Heart, 1600– 1750 and of several articles and reviews on the cultural study of the heart.
Michael Hattaway now teaches at New York University in London. He has edited four plays for the New Cambridge Shakespeare and A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2000); he is the author of Renaissance and Reformations (2005).
MacDonald P. Jackson, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Auckland, is the author of Defining Shakespeare: "Pericles" as Test Case (2003). He has edited or coedited plays by Shakespeare, Marston, Middleton, and Webster.
Natasha Korda, Associate Professor of English at Wesleyan University, is author of Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England (2002) and coeditor of Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama (2002). She is currently completing a book entitled Labors Lost: Women's Work and the Early Modern English Stage.
Peter W. Marx is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Berne and author of Ein theatralisches Zeitalter (2008).
Linda McJanet, Professor of English at Bentley University, is the author of The Sultan Speaks: Dialogue in English Plays and Histories about the [End Page 246] Ottoman Turks; her essays on English representations of the East have appeared in English Literary Renaissance, the Journal of Theatre and Drama, and various scholarly anthologies.
Heather McPherson, Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, is the author of The Modern Portrait in Nineteenth Century France. She is currently completing a book on art and celebrity in the late eighteenth century.
Peter Parolin is Associate Professor and Chair of the University of Wyoming English Department. He writes and teaches on early modern theatrical culture. With Pamela Allen Brown, he coedited Women Players in England, 1500–1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage (2005). He has taught seminars at the Stratford Festival every summer since 1995.
Mary Beth Rose is Director of the Institute for the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently working on a study tentatively entitled The Dead Mother Plot: Family and Authority in Early Modern Texts.
Laurie Shannon is Wender-Lewis Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University and author of Sovereign Amity: Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts (2002). Her current project, The Zootopian Constitution: Animal Integrity and Early Modern Thought (forthcoming from Chicago), explores the consequences of ideas of animal virtue and variety, before the onset of a narrowed Cartesian notion of the "beast as machine." [End Page 247]
