Contributors
- Contributors
Sharon Achinstein is Lecturer on the English Faculty at Oxford University and Fellow of St. Edmund Hall.
Philippa Berry, Fellow and Director of Studies in English at King’s College, Cambridge University is the author of Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen (1989) and Shakespeare’s Feminine Endings: Disfiguring death in the tragedies (1999) and coeditor of Textures of Renaissance Knowledge (2003).
Alan Brissenden, Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in English at the University of Adelaide, is the author of Shakespeare and the Dance (1981) and editor of the Oxford Shakespeare As You Like It (1993) and Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside for the New Mermaids series (1968). He is currently researching the life of the Australian actor, director, and dancer Robert Helpmann.
Philip D. Collington, Assistant Professor of English at Niagara University in Lewiston, New York, is completing a book-length project with the working title “Captive Audiences: Imprisonment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture” from which other extracts are forthcoming in Comparative Drama and Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England.
Mario Digangi, Associate Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center at CUNY, is the author of The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama (1997) and of recent articles on sexuality and gender in Barnfield’s Affectionate Shepherd, Jonson’s Cynthia’s Revels, and Dekker and Middleton’s Roaring Girl.
Andrew James Hartley is Associate Professor of English at the University of West Georgia, where he teaches Shakespeare and other courses in drama and performance.
Elizabeth D. Harvey, Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, is the author of Ventriloquized Voices: Feminist Theory and English Renaissance Texts (1992) and the editor of Sensible Flesh: On Touch in Early Modern Culture (2002); she is completing a book on early modern literature and medicine.
Diana E. Henderson, Associate Professor of Literature at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also teaches in M.I.T’s Women’s Studies and Comparative [End Page 421] Media Studies programs; she is the author of Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender, and Performance (1995) and of numerous articles.
Jean E. Howard, Professor of English at Columbia University, is co-editor of The Norton Shakespeare (1997) and author of The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994) and, with Phyllis Rackin, of Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories (1997). She is currently completing a book called Theater of a City: Social Change and Generic Innovation on the Early Modern Stage.
Richard Levin, Professor Emeritus of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is the author of The Multiple Plot in English Renaissance Drama (1971) and New Readings vs. Old Plays: Recent Trends in the Reinterpretation of English Renaissance Drama (1979). A collection of his recent essays, titled Looking for an Argument: Critical Encounters with the New Approaches to the Criticism of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, is forthcoming.
Ania Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (1989), Colonialism/Postcolonialism (1998), and Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (2002).
Derek Peat, who worked for many years at the University of Sydney, now manages the library and teaches English at Blue Mountains Grammar School in Wentworth Falls, Australia.
David Roberts, Head of the School of English at the University of Central England in Birmingham, UK, has published a monograph on Restoration theater audiences, editions of Defoe and Chesterfield, and numerous articles on seventeenth-century literature and theater criticism.
Barbara Sebek, Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University, is working on a project about the roles and representations of “factors” who served English merchants in overseas trade.
Henry S. Turner, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, is the editor of The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England (2002) and co-editor, with Mary Thomas Crane, of Ashgate’s Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity series. His articles have appeared in ELH, Renaissance Drama, and Twentieth Century Literature; an essay on maps, literature, and early modern topographesis is forthcoming in The History of Cartography Vol III: The Renaissance; and he...
