Contributors

JEMCS 2.1 (Spring/Summer 2002) Contributors Jonathan Burton is Assistant Professor of English at West Virginia University. The author of articles on the representation of Islam in the works of Shakespeare and Marlowe, he is currently completing a study of Islam on the earlymodern English stage Barbara Fuchs is Associate Professor of English and Adjunct Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author ofMimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities (Cambridge UP, 2001) and the forth coming Passing for Spain: Cervantes and theFictions of Identity. Ania Loomba is Professor ofEnglish at theUniversity of Illinois,Urbana Champaign. She is author of Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (1998), Cohnialism/Post hn^ (1998), Shakespeare, Race and Cohnialism (forth ming in2002), and essays on earlymodern literatureas well as con temporary India. She is also co-editor (with Martin Orkin) of Postoolonial Shakespeares (1998) and (withSuvir Kaul) of On India: WritingHistory, Culture, Fbstmtorriality(special issue ofOxford LiteraryReview, 1994). Cheryl L. Nixon is Assistant Professor of English at Babson College. She is completing a book entitled The Surrogate Family inEighteenth-Century Law and Literature: Guarding Estate, Blood, and Body. This project explores the fictional and factual con struction of surrogacy by juxtaposing the novel with manuscript Chancery Court records. She recently edited The Committee, a Restoration comedy by Sir Robert Howard that critiques the Puritans* legal manipulation of the family. Patricia Parker isWatkins Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Her most recent book is Shakespeare from theMargins. She is also co-editor, with Margo Hendricks, of Women, "Race," and Writing in the Early Modern Period and other critical anthologies. The essay in this issue is part of a new book in progress. 148 The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies James Thompson is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book isModels of Value (Duke UP, 1996). Daniel Vitkus teaches in the English department at Florida State University. He specializes in Renaissance drama and travel nar rative, and the culture of early modern England. He taught at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, before moving to Florida. He has edited Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England (Columbia UP, 2000) and Piracy, Slavery and R?demption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England (Columbia UP, 2001), and has recently completed a book called Turning Turk: English Theater and theMulticultural Mediterranean, 1570-1630 with Palgrave. Maja-Lisa von Sneidern is Editorial Assistant for Arizona Quarterly and Restoration and has published articles inELH, ECS, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and South Atlantic Review. She assisted the general editor in preparing The Broadview Anthology ofRestoration & Early Eighteenth-Century Drama. Donna C. Woodford is Assistant Professor of English at Shenandoah University inWinchester, VA. Her research interests include maternity in early modern literature, and she has been published inEnglish Language Notes. She is currently working on a companion guide toKing Lear. ...