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  • Contributors

Mandy L. Albert is a PhD candidate in Medieval Studies at Cornell University. Her research focuses on Dutch-language drama in the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries, with a particular focus on the Bruges playwright Cornelis Everaert. She teaches English at Saint Andrew’s School in Boca Raton, Florida.

Reid Echols is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation explores nationalism and ecology in interwar British literature, and his wider research interests include archival scholarship and pedagogy, Irish studies, and the environmental humanities.

Natalie K. Eschenbaum is Associate Professor and Chair of English at the University of Wisconsin—La Crosse. She is co-editor (with Barbara Correll) of Disgust in Early Modern English Literature (Routledge 2016) and has published on sensation and affect in Shakespeare and Robert Herrick.

Alex Feldman is an Alon Fellow and Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Haifa. He completed his doctorate at Oxford and has held posts at the University of Texas at Austin and MacEwan University, in Alberta. His first book, Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage: In History’s Wings was published by Routledge in 2012, and he is currently working on a second project entitled “The Rigging of the Law,” concerned with dramatic representations of historical trials in modern and contemporary drama.

James Hudson is a lecturer in Drama at the University of Lincoln. He has written on Edward Bond, Sarah Kane, and Howard Barker. He is currently conducting research on Simon Stephens, the British Council’s support for touring drama, and the relationship between theatre and right-wing politics.

Zackariah Long is Associate Professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan University. He has published essays on early modern memory, trauma, and theatre in journals such as English Literary Renaissance and Journal of Literature and Trauma as well as in edited collections including The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory and Staging Pain, 1580–1800. He is currently working on parallel monographs on early modern memory and trauma in Shakespeare. [End Page 432]

Veronica Makowsky is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Caroline Gordon, Susan Glaspell, and Valerie Martin are the subjects of her three books. She has written numerous articles on F. Scott Fitzgerald, American women writers, and southern writers. She served as editor of MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for five years, and Vice Provost for five years.

Shannon Blake Skelton earned his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently Assistant Professor at Kansas State University. His The Late Work of Sam Shepard was published by Bloomsbury/Methuen in 2016. His chapter on Sam Shepard in a collection on American Theatre and tragedy is forthcoming. Current projects include two volumes on horror film directors as well as a book length manuscript on masculinity in the work of McDonagh, Letts, and LaBute.

Robert Vork is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of English and World Languages at Arkansas Tech University. Dr. Vork received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Emory University and an MA from the University of Chicago. His work on dramatists Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud has appeared in the journals Comparative Drama and Modern Drama. Dr. Vork’s current book project, “Opening Acts,” reads the traumatic roots of theatre comparatively through the works of Brecht, Artaud, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. [End Page 433]

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