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  • Contributors

Michael Anderegg, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of North Dakota, is the author of Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture (1999) and Cinematic Shakespeare (Genre and Beyond) (2003).

Catherine Belsey is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Swansea, and author of The Subject of Tragedy (1985), Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden (1999), and Why Shakespeare? (2007).

David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, University of Chicago. He has edited The Complete Works of Shakespeare (5th ed., 2003), the Oxford Henry IV, Part 1 (1987), the Cambridge Antony and Cleopatra (1990), and the Arden3 Troilus and Cressida (1998). Selected recent publications include Shakespeare: An Introduction (2d ed., 2005); Shakespeare: Script, Stage, Screen (2006, with Anne Marie Welsh and Michael L. Greenwald); How to Read a Shakespeare Play (2006); and This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now (2007).

Linda Charnes is Professor of English and West European Studies at Indiana University–Bloomington. Her most recent book is Hamlet’s Heirs: Shakespeare and the Politics of a New Millennium. She is currently working on two monographs: one on Milton and the Libertines and the other on Shakespearean performativity and new interactive media.

Lukas Erne, Professor and English Department Chair at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, is the author of Beyond “The Spanish Tragedy”: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (2001), Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (2003), and Shakespeare’s Modern Collaborators (forthcoming, 2008). He is the editor (with Margaret Jane Kidnie) of Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare’s Drama (2004) and of The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet for the New Cambridge Shakespeare (2007).

Jonathan Gil Harris, Professor of English at George Washington University, is the author of Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England (1998); Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism and Disease in Shakespeare’s England (2004); and Untimely Matter: Reworking Material Culture in the Time of Shakespeare (forthcoming, 2008).

Phebe Jensen, Associate Professor of English at Utah State University, has published articles on recusant, political, and dramatic culture in such journals as Shakespeare Quarterly, Reformation, Renaissance and Reformation, and Literature and History and is completing a monograph, Religion and Revelry in Shakespeare’s Festive World, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

James Kearney is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California–Santa Barbara; his book, The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England, is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Douglas M. Lanier, Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, is the author of Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture (2002) and many articles on Shakespeare and cultural studies; his current project concerns disaffected intellectuals in early modern Britain.

Eric S. Mallin teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Godless Shakespeare (2007) and Shakespeare in the Real, a forthcoming book on Shakespeare in popular culture and cinema.

Michele Osherow is a Clinical Assistant Professor of English and Associate Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities at the University of Maryland–Baltimore County. She frequently serves as dramaturge for the Folger Theatre and other professional theaters on the East Coast. Her published work combines her interests in early modern and biblical studies.

Patricia Phillippy is a Professor of English at Texas A&M University.

Lois Potter is Ned B. Allen Professor of English at the University of Delaware. She is the author of a volume on Othello in the University of Manchester’s Shakespeare in Performance series and is currently working on a critical biography of Shakespeare for Blackwell.

Terry Reilly, Professor of English at the University of Alaska–Fairbanks, teaches Shakespeare and seminars on early modern English literature and law.

Lauren Shohet, who publishes on masque, among other early modern topics, teaches at Villanova University.

Alan Stewart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He recently completed a monograph, Shakespeare’s Letters, and is currently editing Bacon’s Elizabethan writings for the new Oxford Francis Bacon.

Denise A. Walen, Associate Professor of Drama at Vassar College, is the author of Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern...

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