Contributors
- Contributors
Christian M. Billing is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Hull. He has directed numerous theatrical productions of contemporary and early modern playtexts in Great Britain and served as a lighting designer and scenographer throughout Britain and Europe. His research interests include gender politics, the performance of historically distanced playtexts, transnational theories of exchange and cultural mobility, and theoretical and practical investigations of early modern English and classical Greek drama and society.
Alan Galey is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, where he also teaches in the Book History and Print Culture program. His research focuses on theories of the archive and prehistories of digital scholarly editing.
Jonathan Hope is Reader in Literary Linguistics at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. His book Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence, and Artifice in the Renaissance will be published by Arden in October 2010.
Andrew Murphy is Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Shakespeare for the People: Working-Class Readers, 1800-1900 (2008) and Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing (2003) and editor of A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text (2007).
Katherine Rowe is the author of Dead Hands: Fictions of Agency, Renaissance to Modern (1999), coeditor of Reading the Early Modern Passions (2004), and coauthor of New Wave Shakespeare on Screen (2007). A scholar of Renaissance drama, Rowe also works on media history and adaptation. She is a member of the editorial board of Shakespeare Quarterly and Associate Editor (responsible for the online edition) of the Cambridge World Shakespeare Encyclopedia.
Kate Rumbold is a Research Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. She has coordinated a four-year research project funded by the United Kingdom's Arts and Humanities Research Council on the cultural [End Page 440] value of Shakespeare in the twenty-first century, and she is completing a book on the topic with Kate McLuskie.
Ayanna Thompson is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University. She is the author of Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America (forthcoming in 2011) and Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage (2008). She is coeditor, with Scott Newstok, of Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (2009) and editor of Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspectives on Race and Performance (2006).
Whitney Anne Trettien is a doctoral student in English at Duke University. She recently completed a master's in comparative media studies at MIT, where she worked at the HyperStudio-Laboratory for Digital Humanities and produced an entirely digital thesis on seventeenth-century text-generating volvelles and e-poetry.
Michael Witmore is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is the organizer of the Working Group for Digital Inquiry. His most recent book, coauthored with Rosamond Purcell, is Landscapes of the Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare. He is also the author of Shakespearean Metaphysics, Pretty Creatures: Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance, and Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England. His current research deals with early modern wisdom literature and vernacular intellectual culture. [End Page 441]
