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  • Contributors

Mary Thomas Crane is Professor of English at Boston College. She is the author of Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England (1993) and of Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory (2001). mary.crane.1@bc.edu

Robert Darcy is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is completing a book titled Misanthropoetics: Social Flight and Literary Form in Early Modern England, a theory of the aesthetics of misanthropic feeling in the drama and poetry of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, and he is also at work on an annotated edition of formal verse satire published during the sixteenth century. rdarcy@unomaha.edu

Jane Hwang Degenhardt is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she specializes in both Renaissance drama and Asian American fiction. Her current research projects include a book entitled Seduction, Resistance, and Redemption: Staging the Threat of Islamic Conversion and an edited collection of essays on early modern religion and drama. janed@english.umass.edu

Peter Erickson, Visiting Professor of Humanities at Williams College, is the author of Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare's Drama (1985), Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves (1991), and Citing Shakespeare: The Reinterpretation of Race in Contemporary Literature and Art (2007). He has co-edited [End Page 166] Shakespeare's "Rough Magic" (1985), Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race, and Empire in Renaissance England (2000), and Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Othello (2005). peter.erickson@williams.edu

Stephen Guy-Bray is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. In addition to articles and book chapters, chiefly on Renaissance poetry, he is the author of Loving in Verse: Poetic Influence as Erotic (2006) and Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature (2002). He has two books forthcoming: a monograph called Against Reproduction: Where Renaissance Poems Come From and a co-edited collection called Queer Renaissance Historiography: Backward Gaze. guybray@interchange.ubc.ca

Jennifer Mylander is Assistant Professor of English at San Francisco State University. Her publications include work on the circulation and reading of Faust tales in the Atlantic world, forthcoming in Connected by Books, and on the reading of Shakespeare's plays in British America before 1725, forthcoming in Shakespearean Educations. mylander@sfsu.edu

Benedict S. Robinson is Associate Professor of English at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Islam and Early Modern English Literature: The Politics of Romance from Spenser to Milton (2007), and has published articles in English Literary Renaissance, Spenser Studies, Studies in English Literature, Shakespeare Quarterly, and elsewhere. benedict.robinson@stonybrook.edu [End Page 167]

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