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  • Contributors

Robert Bearman, until 2007, was Head of Archives and Local Studies at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon. He has contributed articles on Shakespeare biography to Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey, and Midland History.

Catherine Belsey is Research Professor in English at Swansea University. Her latest book is A Future for Criticism (2011). She has also published 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), Why Shakespeare? (2007), and Shakespeare in Theory and Practice (2008).

Anston Bosman is Associate Professor and Director of Studies in the English Department at Amherst College.

Lara Bovilsky is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon. Her book, Barbarous Play: Race on the English Renaissance Stage, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2008. She has published articles in ELH and Renaissance Drama.

Jonathan Crewe is the Leon Black Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Dartmouth. He has published extensively on early modern poetry, prose, and drama.

Allison K. Deutermann is Assistant Professor of English at Baruch College, the City University of New York. She is coeditor of Formal Matters (forthcoming from Manchester University Press) and is currently completing a book on hearing, taste, and theatrical form in early modern England.

William Dodd was Professor of English at the University of Siena, Arezzo, until his retirement in 2009. He has published widely on Shakespeare, focusing especially on the relationship between dialogue and character. His most recent Shakespeare essay, "Character as Dynamic Identity," appeared in Shakespeare and Character (2009), edited by Paul Yachnin and Jessica Slights. [End Page 303]

Lee Edelman is Fletcher Professor of English Literature and Chair of the English Department at Tufts University. Along with numerous essays in the fields of queer theory, cinema studies, and British and American literature, he is the author of Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane's Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire; Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory; and No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. He is completing a book on sexuality, aesthetic philosophy, and humanistic values to be titled Bad Education.

Lars Engle is James G. Watson Professor and Chair of English at the University of Tulsa. Author of Shakespearean Pragmatism and a coeditor of English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology, he is completing Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries for Blackwell with Eric Rasmussen.

Carla Freccero directs the Center for Cultural Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz, and is professor of Literature, Feminist Studies, and the History of Consciousness. Her most recent book is Queer/Early/Modern.

Barry Gaines is Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, has edited A Yorkshire Tragedy for the Revels Plays (with A. C. Cawley), Romeo and Juliet (Q1) for the Malone Society (with Jill Levenson), and Antony and Cleopatra for the Applause Shakespeare Library (with Janet Suzman). He is preparing a volume of five plays for The Complete Works of Thomas Heywood.

Elizabeth Hanson is Professor of English at Queen's University, Ontario. She is the author of Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England (1998; 2008), as well as articles on a wide range of topics related to early modern English drama. Her current work concerns the relation between learning and social distinction in early modern England.

Jonathan Gil Harris is associate editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, as well as Professor of English at George Washington University. His most recent books are Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare and Shakespeare and Literary Theory.

David Hillman is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College. He is the author of Shakespeare's Entrails: Belief, Scepticism and the Interior of the Body, and the coeditor of several books, including The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe (with Carla Mazzio) and The Book of Interruptions (with Adam Phillips). He [End Page 304] currently is working on a monograph on greetings and partings in early modern England.

James Kearney is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation...

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