Contributors
- Contributors
AMANDA BAILEY, Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, is the author of Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013); Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice, 1550–1650 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), coedited with Roze Hentschell; and Flaunting: Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England (University of Toronto Press, 2007). She is currently completing an edited collection with Mario DiGangi, Affect Theory and Early Modern Texts, and a single-authored monograph tentatively titled A Natural History of Politics: Shakespeare, Sympathy, and the Stars.
RONALD J. BOLING is Associate Professor of English at Lyon College. He has published articles on the anglicizing of Scotland in Macbeth, Desdemona’s agency of social class, Bonduca’s satire of Caratach, and Anglo-Welsh relations in Cymbeline. He has finished a paper on the Norse elements of British national identity in Hamlet and Macbeth, and he is writing the Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare’s chapter on Cymbeline.
SHEILA T. CAVANAGH is serving as the Fulbright/Global Shakespeare Distinguished Chair in London and Warwick in 2015–16. Professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, she is Founding Director of the World Shakespeare Project (www.worldshakespeareproject.org), Director of the Emory Women Writer’s Resource Project (womenwriters.library.emory.edu), and Director of Emory’s Year of Shakespeare, working in conjunction with the Folger Shakespeare Library and American Library Association’s traveling exhibit The First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare. An author of monographs on Spenser and Lady Mary Wroth, she has published widely in the fields of Renaissance literature, pedagogy, and international education.
BRYAN CROCKETT, a professor in the Department of English at Loyola University Maryland, teaches and writes about the interplay between early modern religion and drama. His interests range broadly, from the intricacies of close textual analysis to the craft of literary fiction. Love’s Alchemy, Crockett’s historical novel about John Donne, was released by Cengage in April 2015. [End Page 384]
MARIO DIGANGI is Professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, where he serves as Executive Officer of the Ph.D. program in English. He is the author of The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and Sexual Types: Embodiment, Agency, and Dramatic Character from Shakespeare to Shirley (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).
PHILIP GOLDFARB STYRT recently completed his doctorate at the University of Chicago. His current research focuses on the importance of setting to English Renaissance drama.
F. ELIZABETH HART is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She has published essays on Shakespeare for Shakespeare Quarterly, Studies in English Literature, The Upstart Crow, and English Language Notes. Her work on cognitive literary/theater/performance studies has appeared in a number of journals and in several essay collections, including, most recently, The Emergence of Mind: Representations of Consciousness in Narrative Discourse in English (University of Nebraska Press, 2011). With theater historian Bruce McConachie, she served as coeditor of Performance and Cognition: Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn (Routledge, 2006).
COPPÉLIA KAHN, Professor of English Emerita at Brown University, is the author of Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women (Routledge, 1997) and coeditor with Clara Calvo of Celebrating Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). She was President of the Shakespeare Association of America in 2010.
ROSEMARY KEGL is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rochester. She is the author of The Rhetoric of Concealment: Figuring Gender and Class in Renaissance Literature (Cornell University Press, 1994), and is currently working on two book manuscripts: Revisiting Death in English Renaissance Drama: Apostrophe, Tragicomedy, and Utopia and Tabloid Shakespeare at the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair.
NAOMI CONN LIEBLER is Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Montclair State University. Her current book project focuses on “Shakespeare’s Geezers,” representations of old age in the plays and poems. She has recently completed a chapter entitled “Romeo and Juliet: The Critical Backstory” for Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Reader (Bloomsbury, forthcoming), part of the Arden Early Modern Drama Study Guide series. [End Page 385]
ERIC S. MALLIN teaches at the University of Texas...
