Contributors
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Greg Bentley is Associate Professor in the English Department at Mississippi State University. He teaches courses in Renaissance literature and modern drama.
Lara Dodds is Associate Professor of English at Mississippi State University. She has published essays on Milton, Cavendish, and other topics in seventeenth-century literature and culture in several journals and books.
Nicky Hallett is a member of the faculty in the School of English, University of Sheffield, UK. Her research is primarily in the fields of early modern spiritual self-writing and women's auto/biography. She has produced several studies of nuns' writing including Lives of Spirit: Carmelite Self-Writing of the Early Modern Period and Witchcraft, Exorcism and the Politics of Possession, both published by Ashgate in 2007. Her edition of religious life-writing forms one of the six-volume series English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800 (published in 2012) arising from Caroline Bowden's "Who Were the Nuns?" project at Queen Mary, University of London.
Sarah Hogan is an Assistant Professor in the English department at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. She studies other worlds, both historical and fictional, and is currently at work on a book, Spatial Dreams, Social Plans: Early English Utopias and the Capitalist Imperialist Imaginary.
Nathaniel C. Leonard is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His dissertation explores the complex [End Page 158] relationship between "metatheatricality," the restaging of culture, and dramatic genre in early modern English drama. In particular, his work focuses on how these elements model efficacy within English Renaissance dramatic literature, as well as how they act as catalysts for both hegemony and social critique.
Ryan Netzley is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His book, Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Religious Poetry (University of Toronto Press, 2011) examines the impact of sacramental presence on our understanding of desire, love, and reading in Renaissance religious verse: namely, how do we desire a god that we do not lack? He has also co-edited a collection of essays on John Foxe's Book of Martyrs and the impact of digital and print technologies on reading practice (University of Delaware Press, 2010). He is currently at work on a study of the relationship between lyrics and events, What Happens in Lyric?: Poetry, Apocalypticism, and Events, 1637-1660.
Eavan O'Brien is Research Associate of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Trinity College Dublin) and is Coordinator of the Forum for the Study of Early Modern Women in Continental Europe. She is a specialist in Golden Age Spain and has a particular interest in the history and literature of women in that period. Her research articles have been published in several scholarly journals, including Romance Studies, Modern Language Review, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, and Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. She is author of the monograph, Women in the Prose of María de Zayas, which was published by Tamesis Books in 2010.
Katherine Romack is an Associate Professor at the University of West Florida. She is the co-editor, with James Fitzmaurice, of Cavendish and Shakespeare, Interconnections (Ashgate, 2006) and has published a number of essays on seventeenth-century women writers, religion, and performance. Currently, she is at work on one monograph exploring the poetics of religious dissent in the English Civil Wars and Interregnum and another on gender and the Restoration theater. [End Page 159]
Gitanjali Shahani is an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University. Her edited volume, Emissaries in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Mediation, Transmission, Traffic, 1550-1700 (with Brinda Charry), was published by Ashgate in 2009. She has published articles and book chapters on the early modern East India trade, women's writing from the early modern archive, Shakespeare in Hindi cinema, and more recently, on food studies. She is currently working on a book project, tentatively titled "The Spicèd Indian Air in Shakespeare's England: Consumption, Culinaryism, and Colonialism," which explores discourses of racial, cultural, and religious alterity that emerged in the wake of early English contact with the East, specifically in relation to the seventeenth-century spice trade. [End Page 160]
