Contributors
- Contributors
MEGHAN C. ANDREWS is a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, from which she recently received her PhD. Her current book project argues that Shakespeare’s social networks and institutional affiliations exerted a strong influence on the composition of his plays and poems. She has published in SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 and Marlowe Studies: An Annual.
F. W. BROWNLOW is Gwen and Allen Smith Professor in English Emeritus of Mount Holyoke College. He is completing a book about Elizabeth I and her torturer friend, Richard Topcliffe, entitled The Queen and the Torturer.
FRANK NICHOLAS CLARY is Professor of English at Saint Michael’s College in Vermont. He is coordinating editor of www.hamletworks.org and coeditor of the New Variorum Hamlet team.
PETER ERICKSON is a member of the graduate faculty in theater and a faculty affiliate in African American studies at Northwestern University. His most recent book is Citing Shakespeare: The Reinterpretation of Race in Contemporary Literature and Art (2007). He has published essays on contemporary visual artists, including Glenn Ligon, Fred Wilson, William Kentridge, Nick Cave, Kerry James Marshall, and Isaac Julien, in Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art.
HUGH GRADY is professor emeritus of English at Arcadia University. He is the author of The Modernist Shakespeare (1991), Shakespeare’s Universal Wolf (1996), and Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne (2002). His most recent books are Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics (2009) and the coedited anthology Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now (2013).
JOHN N. KING is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus and Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Religious Studies at the Ohio State University. His most recent book is Foxe’s “Book of Martyrs”: Select Narratives (2009). He is coeditor of Sermons at Paul’s Cross, 1521–1642, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. [End Page 365]
JOHN KUNAT is interested in how race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality were negotiated in relation to one another, particularly through acts of sanctioned violence. He is currently drafting a manuscript that investigates how such violence was employed to fashion new juridical and literary norms.
SETH LERER is Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California at San Diego. His books have been awarded the Beatrice White Prize, the Harry Levin Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Truman Capote Prize in Criticism. His article on Hamlet’s letter to Ophelia appears in the fall 2014 issue of ELH.
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) and Romance for Sale in Early Modern England (2006), as well as coeditor of The Age of Thomas Nashe (2013) and Rogues and Early Modern English Culture (2004). His current project is a new book, Shipwreck and the Global Ecology, forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.
PAUL MENZER teaches at Mary Baldwin College, where he directs the graduate program in Shakespeare and performance. He is a recent recipient of a long-term National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library. His new book, Anecdotal Shakespeare: A New Performance History is forthcoming from Arden.
JASON SCOTT-WARREN is a Reader in Early Modern Literature and Culture in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge; a fellow of Gonville and Caius College; and Director of the Cambridge Centre for Material Texts. He is the author of Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift (2001) and Early Modern English Literature (2005).
GARY TAYLOR is Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University, where he founded the interdisciplinary History of Text Technologies program. He has edited the works of Shakespeare (1986) and Middleton (2007) for Oxford University Press and is currently collaborating on the forthcoming New Oxford Shakespeare.
JESÚS TRONCH is Senior Lecturer at the University of Valencia where he teaches English literature and creative translation. The author of A Synoptic “Hamlet” (2002), and Un primer “Hamlet” (1994), he has coedited bilingual English-Spanish editions of The Tempest (1994) and Antony and [End Page 366] Cleopatra (2001), and a critical edition of The Spanish Tragedy for the Arden Early Modern Drama series (2013). He is...
