Contributors
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Frances E. Dolan is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy (2008), Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture (1999), and Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700 (1994). She has published essays in numerous journals and edited collections, and is the editor of The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts (1996) as well as five plays for the new Pelican Shakespeare. Currently the Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library, she is working on True Relations: Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England.
Emily C. Francomano is Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the Comparative Literature Program at Georgetown University. She is the author of Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature (2008) and articles on medieval romance, hagiography, and translation. Her current research revolves around the multiple translations and international success of Spanish sentimental romances in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries.
Manuela Mourão is Associate Professor of English at Old Dominion University. She teaches Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Critical Theory. Her research and writing have focused on representations of sex and gender, Victorian women writers, and the formation of Portuguese racial identity. She is the author of Altered Habits: Reconsidering the Nun in Fiction (2002) and coeditor, with Edward Jacobs, of William Harrison Ainsworth's 1839 novel Jack Sheppard (2007). [End Page 129]
Vanita Neelakanta is Assistant Professor of English at Rider University, New Jersey. She has published articles on Milton, and is currently working on a book about early modern transatlantic representations of the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple.
Kimberly Poitevin is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. Her article on cosmetics in Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedie of Mariam was recently included in Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700: Elizabeth Cary (2009). She is currently working on an article about gender and British origin myths of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. [End Page 130]
