Notes on Contributors
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Claire Coupe is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of English at Macquarie University, and the recipient of a Macquarie Research Excellence Scholarship. Her work explores classical influences on early modern poetry, with a focus on Shakespeare. Besides teaching and researching Renaissance poetry, Claire is currently completing a book on Ovidian metamorphosis in Shakespeare’s nondramatic texts.
A.D. Cousins is Professor in English at Macquarie University. His latest monograph, on Marvell as mythmaker, was published in 2016 by Routledge. He has a book (with Daniel Derrin, and through Cambridge University Press) forthcoming on the soliloquy in early modern English drama.
Clifford Davidson is Professor of English and Medieval Studies Emeritus at Western Michigan University. Over the past half-century, he published numerous books, articles, and reviews, mainly in late medieval and early modern drama, art, religion, and culture. He was director of the Medieval Institute’s Early Drama, Art, and Music project in the Medieval Institute, and served as co-editor of the international journal Comparative Drama. Among his recent publications are a TEAMS edition of the York Corpus Christi Plays (Medieval Institute Publications), Corpus Christi Plays at York: A Context for Religious Drama (AMS Press), Mary of Nemmegen: The ca. 1518 Translation and the Middle Dutch Analogue (ed., with Ton Broos and Martin Walsh, Medieval Institute Publications), and Studies in Late Medieval Wall Paintings, Manuscript Illuminations, and Texts (Palgrave Macmillan).
Jennifer Hole is an Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia where she completed her PhD thesis in 2015. Her book Economic Ethics in Late Medieval England, 1300–1500 was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. The book explores how ethical concepts were conveyed to governments and individuals in a hierarchical and unequal society, which was based on an economy which was mostly rural. The investigation examined how concepts and ideas originated in theological and philosophical writings, how these were echoed in pastoral manuals, sermons and literary works, and the extent to which such ethical ideals were reflected in statutes, petitions, and the letters and wills of merchants and landowners. [End Page 207]
Victoria Legkikh graduated from the Philological Faculty of St. Petersburg University in 2002, and received her PhD from the Institute of Russian Literature of Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushkinskij Dom). In 2010, she published a book concerning services to St. Nicholas in Slavonic tradition. She has taught language and literature in several different Institutes and since 2015, has been working in Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna. Her main interests are Slavic and Byzantine hymnography and Russian saint princes.
Arielle C. McKee is an editorial assistant for Arthuriana and a PhD Candidate studying Fairies in Middle English Romances at Purdue University. Her research interests include, among other things, otherworld studies, narrative theory, and ecocriticism.
Murat Öğütcü received his BA degree from Gaziantep University, Turkey, in 2008 and his PhD degree, for a thesis entitled “Shakespeare’s Satirical Representation of the Elizabethan Court and the Nobility in His English History Plays” from the Department of English Language and Literature at Hacettepe University, Turkey, in 2016. From August 2012 to January 2013, he was a visiting scholar at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is currently the Head of the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Munzur University, Turkey. His research interests include Early Modern Studies, Shakespeare and Cultural Studies. His recent essays include “Public Execution and Justice On/Off the Elizabethan Stage”, “Shakespeare in Animation”, “Early Modern English Historiography: Providentialism versus New History”, “Comedy and Fun: Is Shakespeare Funny?”, and “The ‘Gothic’ in Hamlet.”
Saba Pirzadeh is Assistant Professor of English and Environmental Literature at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan. She obtained her PhD in English from Purdue University on a Fulbright fellowship in 2016. Her dissertation “Violence, Militarism, and the Environment in Contemporary South Asian Literature” explores narrative depictions of the intensification of anthropocentric violence and its exploitation of the environment for purposes of profit, conquest and consumption. Her work has been published in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment and South Asian Review and explores issues of eco-politics, natural degradation and social justice. [End Page 208...
