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  • Contributors

Crystal Bartolovich is Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University. She is author, with Jean Howard and David Hillman, of Marx and Freud: the Great Shakespeareans, as well as the author of numerous essays on early modern and theoretical topics in venues such as PMLA, Cultural Critique, and New Formations. She also edits the journal Early Modern Culture. Her current book project is entitled A Natural History of the Common.

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Professor of English and Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at the George Washington University. His publications include Of Giants; Medieval Identity Machines and Hybridity, Identity and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain. He has edited the collections Monster Theory, The Postcolonial Middle Ages, and Prismatic Ecology.

Helen Cooper is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. Beginning with her Pastoral: Mediaeval into Renaissance (1978), she has published extensively across the medieval and early modern periods, including The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare (2004) and Shakespeare and the Medieval World (2010). Most recently, she has co-edited Medieval Shakespeare: Pasts and Presents (2013) with Ruth Morse and Peter Holland.

Drew Daniel is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University. He has published numerous articles on Renaissance literature, political philosophy, and avant garde aesthetics, and is the author of The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance (2013) and 20 Jazz Funk Greats (2008). He is also one half of the electronic group Matmos. [End Page 176]

Elizabeth D. Harvey is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her publications include Ventriloquized Voices: Feminist Theory and Renaissance Texts; Luce Irigaray and Premodern Culture: Thresholds of History (ed. with Theresa Krier); and Sensible Flesh: On Touch in Early Modern Culture (ed). She is currently completing a co-authored book (with Tim Harrison) on early modern literature and the discourses of science and medicine, John Donne’s Physics, and a book project on early modern air, spirits, and the passions.

Amy K. Hermanson is an instructor in the Department of English at Texas Christian University. Her current research focuses on religious writing, reading practices, and the development of community in the early modern period.

Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St. John’s University in New York City. He is the author of At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean (2009), Romance for Sale in Early Modern England (2006), and numerous articles on Shakespeare, early modern literature, oceanic studies, and ecocriticism. He has co-edited two collections, Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (2004) and The Age of Thomas Nashe (forthcoming 2013). His current work explores shipwreck as a narrative of global ecological disruption.

Ineke Murakami is Associate Professor of English at University at Albany, SUNY. She is the author of Moral Play and Counterpublic (2011), has published in Studies in English Literature and Religion and Literature, and is currently at work on a project, provisionally entitled Theater of Anarchy: Theatricalilty, Politics, and Spectacle in Early Modern England.

Joshua Phillips is Associate Professor of English at the University of Memphis and the author of English Fictions of Communal Identity, 1485–1603. He has published essays on the history of the book, Montaigne, More, and Tudor romance, with articles forthcoming on Spenser, Shakespeare, and English law in the early sixteenth century. He is currently at work on a project about monasticism and literature in post-Reformation England. [End Page 177]

Emily Shortslef is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her dissertation explores the performative language of complaint in the historical poetry and drama of early modern England. She has previously published work on Shakespeare’s history plays.

Henry S. Turner is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580–1630 (2006) and of Shakespeare’s Double Helix (2008). He is the editor of The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England (2002), co-editor of a special issue of Configurations on “Mathematics and...

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