Contributors
- Contributors
LEEDS BARROLL is one of several Scholars-in-Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Recent work includes “Shakespeare and His Fellows: Honored at Somerset House?” in the Charles Forker Memorial volume (2016) and “Shakespeare, His Fellows, and the New English King,” not yet published. His publications include Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000); Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare’s Theater (Cornell University Press, 1991); Shakespearean Tragedy: Genre, Tradition, and Change in “Antony and Cleopatra” (Folger Shakespeare Library, 1984); Artificial Persons: The Formation of Character in Shakespeare’s Tragedies (University of South Carolina Press, 1974); and various articles. He is the editor and founder of Shakespeare Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (MaRDiE), and the founder and former president of the Shakespeare Association of America.
KEVIN CURRAN is Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He is the editor of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy book series. He is the author of Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court (Ashgate, 2009) and Shakespeare’s Legal Ecologies: Law and Distributed Selfhood (Northwestern University Press, 2017), and the editor of Shakespeare and Judgment (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
MARGRETA DE GRAZIA is Emerita Rosenberg Chair in the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Shakespeare Verbatim (Oxford University Press, 1991) and “Hamlet” without Hamlet (Cambridge University Press, 2007), as well as coeditor of Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and two editions of the Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare.
IAN H. DE JONG is a PhD student at the University of Nevada, Reno, studying adaptation in cultural constructions of Shakespeare. His essay “‘A hit, a very palpable hit’: Hamlet at the Globe, c. 1600” appeared in the British Library’s exhibition catalogue for Shakespeare in Ten Acts (2016), and he is a contributor to the British Library’s Discovering Literature: Shakespeare project. [End Page 288]
GABRIEL EGAN is Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University. He is one of the general editors of the New Oxford Shakespeare (2016) and coedits the journals Theatre Notebook and Shakespeare. He is currently investigating computational methods for quantifying the differences between the early quarto and Folio texts of Shakespeare’s plays.
MARK EISEN received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 2014 and is currently working towards his PhD in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include distributed optimization and machine learning. He was awarded an Outstanding Student Presentation at the 2014 Joint Mathematics Meeting and was the recipient of the 2014 University of Pennsylvania Engineering Exceptional Service Award.
JUDITH HABER is Professor of English at Tufts University. Her most recently published book is Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2009); she is currently working on a book-length manuscript, tentatively titled Adoptive Strategies: Imagining Paternity in Early Modern England.
JAY L. HALIO is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Delaware. He is the author or editor of over forty books and many articles and reviews on Shakespeare and on modern fiction. He is currently completing a draft of the New Variorum edition of All’s Well That Ends Well to be published by the MLA.
MICHAEL L. HAYS is an independent scholar (PhD, University of Michigan). He is the author of Shakespearean Tragedy as Chivalric Romance: Rethinking “Macbeth,” “Hamlet,” “Othello,” and “King Lear” as well as published articles and conference papers on subjects related to these four plays, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, Sir Thomas More, genre and periodization (with special attention to English medieval romance), and the humanities.
JEAN E. HOWARD is George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University where she teaches early modern literature, Shakespeare, feminist studies, and theater history. Author of several books, including The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (Routledge, 1993); Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories (Routledge, 1997), cowritten with Phyllis Rackin; and Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598–1642 (University of Pennsylvania...
