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  • Contributors

Gina Bloom is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California–Davis and the author of Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England. Her current book project concerns games and manhood in the early modern English theater.

Bruce Danner teaches at St. Lawrence University in New York. He is working on a critical study of Edmund Spenser’s final decade, entitled Furious Muse: Edmund Spenser’s War against Lord Burghley.

Anthony B. Dawson is professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia and the author of several books and articles on Shakespeare, including editions of Troilus and Cressida (for Cambridge University Press) and Timon of Athens (for Arden, coedited with Gretchen Minton).

Heather Dubrow, the Reverend John D. Boyd, SJ, Chair at Fordham University, is the author of six single-authored books (most recently, The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England), two chapbooks of poetry, and articles on pedagogy.

Jean Feerick, Assistant Professor of English at Brown University, has recently completed a book manuscript, Strangers in Blood: Relocating Race in Renaissance Literature. Articles based on this work have appeared in English Literary Renaissance, Early American Studies, and Renaissance Drama; another is forthcoming in a special issue on “Shakespeare and Science” in South Central Review.

Richard Halpern, Sir William Osler Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University, is the author of Shakespeare’s Perfume (2003) and Shakespeare among the Moderns (1997). He is currently at work on a book about theater and political economy.

Hannibal Hamlin is Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University and Associate Editor of Reformation. Author of Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature and coeditor of The Sidney Psalter: The Psalms of Sir Philip and Mary Sidney (forthcoming), he is currently writing a book on Shakespeare and the Bible. [End Page 526]

David Hawkes is Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author of Idols of the Marketplace: Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in English Literature, 1580–1680 (2001), Ideology (2003), The Faust Myth: Religion and the Rise of Representation (2007), and John Milton: A Hero for Our Time (forthcoming, 2009).

Jonathan Hope is Reader in Literary Linguistics at Strathclyde University and Head of the English Studies Department. His book, Shakespeare and Language, will appear in the Arden Critical Companions series in 2009.

Skiles Howard is the author of The Politics of Courtly Dancing in Early Modern England (1998) and many articles. She is also coeditor, with Gail Kern Paster, of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Texts and Contexts (1999) for Bedford / St. Martin’s.

Alexander C. Y. Huang, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University, is the author of Chinese Shakespeares: A Century of Cultural Exchange (2009) and coeditor, with Charles Ross, of Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia and Cyberspace (2009). He has contributed to MLQ, Shakespeare Bulletin, The Shakespearean International Yearbook, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, and other journals and collections.

Zachary Lesser, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication: Readings in the English Book Trade (2004) and the co-creator of DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks. With Alan B. Farmer, he is currently writing a book entitled Print, Plays, and Popularity in Shakespeare’s England.

Scott L. Newstok, Assistant Professor of English at Rhodes College, is author of Quoting Death in Early Modern England (forthcoming, 2009), editor of Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare (2007), and coeditor, with Ayanna Thompson, of a forthcoming collection of essays exploring, through Macbeth, the intersection of race and performance.

Anne Lake Prescott is Helen Goodhart Altschul Professor of English at Barnard College and President of the Sixteenth Century Society. She is the author of French Poets and the English Renaissance and Imagining Rabelais in the English Renaissance. She is coeditor of the Norton Critical Edition of Spenser and coeditor of Spenser Studies. [End Page 527]

Jyotsna G. Singh is a Professor of English at Michigan State University. She is the author of Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialogues: “Discoveries” of India in the Language of Colonialism, coeditor (with Ivo Kamps) of Travel Knowledge: European “Discoveries” in the Early...

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