Contributors
- Contributors
Catherine Belsey is Distinguished Research Professor at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. Her books include The Subject of Tragedy: Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama (1985), Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture (1999), and Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction (2002).
David M. Bergeron, Professor of English at the University of Kansas, has written widely on Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and the Stuart royal family, including, most recently, Practicing Renaissance Scholarship: Plays and Pageants, Patrons and Politics (2000), and King James and Letters of Homoerotic Desire (1999).
Sheila T. Cavanagh, Masse-Martin/NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor at Emory University, is the author of Cherished Torment: The Emotional Geography of Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania (2001) and Wanton Eyes and Chaste Desires: Female Sexuality in The Faerie Queene (1994) and of numerous articles on Renaissance literature and pedagogy; she also directs the Emory Women Writers Resource Project, a Web site devoted to women's writing from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Katharine A. Craik completed her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge and teaches English at University College London.
William Fisher, Assistant Professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York, is currently completing a manuscript entitled Prosthetic Gender in Early Modern England that analyzes the role that items such as beards, hair, codpieces, and handkerchiefs played in materializing masculinity and femininity.
Miriam Gilbert, Professor of English at the University of Iowa, recently published a study of The Merchant of Venice in performance for Arden’s Shakespeare at Stratford series.
Russell Jackson is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham and Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon. His most recent publication is a stage history of Romeo and Juliet in Arden's Shakespeare at Stratford series. [End Page 605]
Coppélia Kahn is Professor of English and Gender Studies at Brown University. Her most recent book is Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds, and Women (1997), and she is currently working on a study of Shakespeare as a racialized cultural icon in England, Canada, and America.
William Kerwin, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia, recently completed a book on early modern medical practitioners and the drama.
Dennis Kezar is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and the author of Guilty Creatures: Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship (2001). He is currently editing a collection of essays on law and theater in early modern England titled Solon and Thespis.
David McCandless, Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Hamline University, is the author of Gender and Performance in Shakespeare’s Problem Comedies (1997) and of numerous articles on Shakespeare and modern drama.
Richard C. McCoy teaches at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent book is Alterations of State: Sacred Kingship in the English Reformation (2002), and he is currently working on links between Reformation sacramental theology and contemporary performance theory.
Nicholas R. Moschovakis, Visiting Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University, is at work on a project titled “Unenlightened Shakespeare?” He is also a scholar of Tennessee Williams and has published in Milton Quarterly.
Kristen Poole, Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware, is the author of Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of nonconformity in early modern England (2000).
David Riggs is Professor of English at Stanford University. His studies include Shakespeare’s Heroical Histories (1971) and Ben Jonson: A Life (1989).His biography of Christopher Marlowe will appear in 2004.
Kathryn Schwarz, Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance (2000). [End Page 606]
Gregory M. Colón Semenza, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, has published articles on Chaucer, sixteenth-century prose, Shakespeare, and Milton as well as a book entitled Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance (forthcoming 2003).
Scott Cutler Shershow, Associate Professor of English at Miami University, is the author of Puppets and “Popular” Culture (1995) and the co-editor, with Jean E. Howard, of Marxist Shakespeares (2001).
Claire Sponsler teaches medieval literature...
