Contributors
- Contributors
Emma Katherine Atwood is a doctoral candidate in English literature at Boston College, where she focuses on Renaissance and Restoration drama. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Theater, and Shakespeare Bulletin. Her forthcoming dissertation explores connections between domestic architecture and spatial practice in seventeenth-century drama.
Baylee Brits is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia at the University of New South Wales. She is currently completing her thesis on the mathematics of contingency and twentieth-century fiction.
Aurélie Capron is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at McKendree University, where she teaches Spanish and some French. She graduated from the University of California in Santa Cruz with her PhD in Literature. Dr. Capron's research focuses on French and Spanish seventeenth-century drama and female scholarship.
Robert Connick received his PhD in Theater from Bowling Green State University. He is currently an adjunct instructor of speech and an advisor in the Speech Communication Center at Gannon University. He is also the artistic director of the Laugh/Riot Performing Arts Company, currently in its first season as a resident theater company at Edinboro University.
Max Harris is Executive Director Emeritus of the Wisconsin Humanities Council at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has also taught at Yale University and the University of Virginia. He is the author of five books, including Aztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain (University of Texas Press, 2000) and Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools (Cornell University Press, 2011). He is currently working on the processional theater of Palm Sunday. [End Page 147]
Peter Kirwan is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the University of Nottingham. He is currently preparing a monograph on the Shakespeare apocrypha and has written several articles on the textual and material history of the disputed plays. His wider research interests include contemporary stage and screen adaptations of early modern drama, and he is also editing an essay collection on digital Shakespeare. He is a trustee of the British Shakespeare Association.
Sofie Kluge earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Copenhagen and is the Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Stockholm. She is author of Baroque Allegory Comedia: The Transfiguration of Tragedy in Seventeenth-Century Spain (Edition Reichenberger, 2010) and numerous articles on various aspects of Spanish Golden Age literature, including multiple publications in Comparative Drama, most recently "Ambiguous Allegories: What the Mythological Comedia Reveals About Baroque Tragedy."
Lurana Donnels O'Malley received her PhD in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of Texas at Austin. She is Professor of Theatre at the University of Hawai´i at Manoa, where she teaches Western theater history, dramatic literature, theater research methods, and directing. A specialist in Russian drama, her most recent book is The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great: Theatre and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Russia (Ashgate, 2006). Her current research focuses on African American playwrights and the 1932 George Washington Bicentennial celebration.
Anette Pankratz is professor for British Cultural Studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She received a PhD from Technische Universität Dresden with a study on Restoration comedies. Her postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation) at the Universität Passau analyzed representations of death and dying in contemporary British and Irish drama. Her research and publications focus on the long seventeenth century and contemporary British culture from Edward Bond to James Bond.
Peter Ramey is Assistant Professor of English at Northern State University, where he teaches courses on medieval literature and linguistics. His research interests include medieval aesthetics, Latin hymnody, and aspects of vernacularity in Old and Middle English verse, and he has published articles on early English oral poetics and performance. Currently he is working on a project that focuses on book history and materiality in the Old English metrical prefaces. [End Page 148]
Francesca T. Royster is Professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago. Her areas of expertise include African American culture and performance, gender and queer theory, and Shakespeare studies. Her most recent book, Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the...
