Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Paul Alpers is Class of 1942 Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of California at Berkeley and Professor-in-Residence at Smith College. He is the author of books on The Faerie Queene and pastoral poetry. His current work is on the Renaissance lyric in England.
Kimberly Johnson is Assistant Professor of English at Brigham Young University. She has written on Crashaw and Edward Taylor, and is currently completing a book on eucharistic eroticism. Recipient of an NEA Fellowship, she is the author of Leviathan with a Hook and A Metaphorical God.
Kate D. Levin’s scholarship centers on plays, masques, and pageants in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. She has directed work by Beaumont, Behn, Davenant, Lyly, Middleton, Jonson, and others. A faculty member on leave from the English and Theater departments of The City College of New York, she currently serves as Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for New York City.
Cristina Malcolmson is Professor of English at Bates College. She is the author of Heart-Work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic and George Herbert: A Literary Life, and has edited, with Mihoko Suzuki, Debating Gender in Early Modern England 1500–1700. Her recent work focuses on race and gender in the early Royal Society.
Stephen Orgel is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in the Humanities at Stanford. His most recent books are Imagining Shakespeare and The Authentic Shakespeare. He has edited The Tempest and The Winter’s Tale in The Oxford Shakespeare, Marlowe’s Poems and Translations for Penguin Classics, and is the general editor, with A. R. Braunmuller, of the New Pelican Shakespeare.
Jonathan F.S. Post is Professor of English at UCLA. His works include Henry Vaughan: The Unfolding Vision; Sir Thomas Browne; [End Page 135] English Lyric Poetry: The Early Seventeenth-Century; and many essays on Renaissance and modern poetry. He has edited Green Thoughts, Green Shades: Essays by Contemporary Poets on the Early Modern Lyric, and, with Sidney Gottlieb, George Herbert in the Nineties.
Michael C. Schoenfeldt is Professor of English and Associate Dean for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship and Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, and Milton; co-editor of Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton; and editor of the Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare’s Sonnets. He is currently at work on The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Poetry, and on a book-length study of the ethics of emotion in early modern England.
Richard Strier is Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English and the College at the University of Chicago, and the editor of Modern Philology. His books include Resistant Structures: Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts; Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert’s Poetry; and a number of co-edited collections. He has published essays on many Renaissance texts and on critical theory. He is currently completing a book to be entitled The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton. [End Page 136]
