Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors JAMES BIESTER is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago and the author of Lyric Wonder: Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry. DENNIS FLYNN is Professor of English at Bentley College in Waltham, MA. He is the author of John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility, the first in a series of biographical studies explicating Donne's five portraits. DIANA HENDERSON, Associate Professor of Literature at M.I.T., is the author of Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender, and Performance as well as articles on works by Spenser, Heywood, Joyce, and Woolf. Other recent essays have appeared in Shakespeare: The Movie, A New History ofEarly English Drama, Dwelling in Possibility, and Blackwell's Companion to Shakespeare. Her current book manuscript is entitled Uneasy Collaborations: Shakespeare across Time and Media. EUGENE D. HILL, Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, has published Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and essays on Donne, Milton and Elizabethan tragedy. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Garland Encyclopedia of Tudor England. WILLIAM KERRIGAN is the author of five books, The Prophetic Milton, The Sacred Complex, The Idea of the Renaissance (with Gordon Braden), Hamlet's Perfection, and Shakespeare's Promises, and over sixty essays on various topics. He is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. MARY OATES O'REILLY teaches English at Rider University, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Her courses include Shakespeare, Milton, Sixteenth-Century Literature, and Seventeenth-Century Literature. She has published on Spenser, Milton, Jonson, Henry James, Vaclav Havel, Tom Stoppard, and Robert Pirsig. 166Notes on Contributors SHARON CADMAN SEELIG is Professor of English at Smith College. She is the author of Generating Texts: The Progeny of SeventeenthCentury Prose and The Shadow of Eternity: Belief and Structure in Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne, as well as essays on Shakespeare, Milton, and other seventeenth-century authors. She is currently working on a study of self-representation in texts by early modern women writers. BJ. SOKOL joined the University of London in 1974, after several years of teaching in New Mexico, and was granted tenure in 1977. His publications include many essays on Shakespeare, essays on Milton, Marvell, Rochester, Harriot, Lamb, Frost, and Nabokov, and Shakespeare's Legal Language (with Mary Sokol) and Art and Illusion in The Winter's Tale. Forthcoming are a chapter on Margaret Cavendish and biographies for the new DNB. JONATHAN TUCK has been teaching since 1979 at St. John's College, Annapolis. He has served as Assistant Dean and currently holds the NEH Chair in Modern Thought. His recent work has been on Thoreau and Montaigne. ...