Contributors
- Contributors
Lawrence Danson teaches at Princeton University. His Longman Cultural Edition of The Merchant of Venice appeared in 2005.
Alan C. Dessen, Peter G. Phialas Professor of English (Emeritus) at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, is the author of eight books, including Elizabethan Stage Conventions and Modern Interpreters (1984), Recovering Shakespeare’s Theatrical Vocabulary (1995), Rescripting Shakespeare (2002), and (coauthored with Leslie Thomson) A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580–1642 (1999). Since 1994, he has been editor or coeditor of the Shakespeare Performed section of Shakespeare Quarterly.
Andrew Escobedo, an associate professor at Ohio University, is the author of Nationalism and Historical Loss in Renaissance England: Foxe, Dee, Spenser, Milton (2004).
R. A. Foakes is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California–Los Angeles and the author of Shakespeare and Violence (2003).
Darryl J. Gless is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and formerly Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities there. He is the author of “Measure for Measure,” the Law, and the Convent and Interpretation and Theology in Spenser.
Paul E. J. Hammer, Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is the author of The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The political career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585–1597 (1999); Elizabeth’s Wars: War, Government and Society in Tudor England, 1544–1604 (2004); and numerous articles. He is also editor of Warfare in early modern Europe, 1450–1660 (2007). He is currently completing a book on the Essex Rising and the end of Elizabethan politics, 1598–1603. Until recently, he taught at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
James Kuzner is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Pomona College. He has articles and reviews in print or forthcoming in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Yearbook, Modern Language Quarterly, and Shakesqueer.
Michael Manheim, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Toledo, is the author of The Weak King Dilemma in the Shakespearean History Play (1973), Eugene O’Neill’s New Language of Kinship (1982), and a variety of studies of Elizabethan drama, Shakespeare on screen, and early 20th-century drama—most recently, Vital Contradictions: Characterization in the Plays of Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, and O’Neill (2002).
C. E. McGee teaches English at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo. His most recent work has appeared in The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I; Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Texts; and Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works.
Michael Neill is the author of Issues of Death (1997) and Putting History to the Question (2000). He has edited The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra (1994) and Othello, The Moor of Venice (2006) for the Oxford Shakespeare and The Changeling (2006) for The New Mermaids series. He is currently Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt University.
John Roe is a Reader in English and Related Literature at the University of York; his revised edition of Shakespeare: The Poems appeared in 2006.
Ben Saunders is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon and author of Desiring Donne: Poetry, Sexuality, Interpretation (2006).
Goran V. Stanivukovic is Associate Professor of English at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. His publications include a critical edition of Emanuel Ford’s Ornatus and Artesia (2003) and the edited volumes Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings (2007), Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities in England, 1560–1640 (with Constance C.Relihan [2003]), and Ovid and the Renaissance Body (2001).
Lisa S. Starks is Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, at the University of South Florida–St. Petersburg. She is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Transforming Trauma: Violence, Vulnerability, and “Virtus” in Shakespeare’s Roman Poems and Plays.
Barbara H. Traister, Professor of English at Lehigh University and author of The Notorious Astrological Physician of London and Heavenly Necromancers: The Magician in English Renaissance Drama, is working on a project dealing with Holinshed’s Chronicles.
