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  • Contributors

Peter Erickson teaches in the theater department at Northwestern University with an affiliation in African American studies. He is the author of Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare’s Drama (1985), Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves (1991), and Citing Shakespeare: The Reinterpretation of Race in Contemporary Literature and Art (2007). He has co-edited Shakespeare’s “Rough Magic” (1985), Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race, and Empire in Renaissance England (2000), and Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Othello (2005).

Julia M. Garrett is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and an affiliated faculty member of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of New England. She has published an article on deviance theory and The Witch of Edmonton and is completing a study of the Warboys demonic possession case. With Donald Jellerson, she is editing two Tudor plays, Cambyses, King of Persia, and Damon and Pithias, both for Digital Renaissance Editions.

Peter C. Remien is Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming, focusing on early modern British literature and environmental cultural studies. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2012. His dissertation, “The Oeconomy of Nature,” historically situates the concepts of “ecology” and “environment” through a study of the motif of the “natural” household in seventeenth-century literature and natural philosophy. He has articles published or forthcoming in Notes & Queries and Studies in Philology. [End Page 169]

Bret Rothstein teaches in the Department of the History of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington. A scholar of early modern visual wit, he is the author of Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting (Cambridge UP, 2005) as well as essays in Art History, Dutch Crossing, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, and Word & Image.

Deborah Willis is Chair and Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Malevolent Nurture: Witch- Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England and numerous articles on early modern witchcraft as well as on Shakespeare, Marlowe, and other Renaissance playwrights. Ongoing projects focus on early modern concepts of addiction and on the witch in contemporary film.

John R. Ziegler is currently a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow at Fordham University as well as Director of the Writing Center at Concordia College, New York. He has an essay forthcoming in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England on the dramatization of struggles over space in plays that include masques. The essay is drawn from a larger ongoing project about performing masques on the commercial stage in early modern London. [End Page 170]

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