Notes on Contributors

David Ayers is senior lecturer in English and American literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he teaches courses in modern literature and theory and directs the Centre for Modern Poetry. His publications include Wyndham Lewis and Western Man (1992), English Literature of the 1920s (1999), and Modernism: A Short Introduction (forthcoming).

Douglas A. Brooks is associate professor of English at Texas A&M University and the general editor of Shakespeare Yearbook. He is the author of From Playhouse to Printing House: Drama and Authorship in Early Modern England (2000) and is the editor of a collection of essays entitled Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England (in press). He is presently writing a book entitled "In Such a Questionable Shape": Masculinity, Paternity and Print in Early Modern England and editing a collection of essays entitled Milton and the Jews.

Helen Freshwater is a lecturer in drama and performance in the English department at the University of Nottingham. Her research specialties include twentieth-century theory, contemporary performance, theories of censorship, and the archive. Her recent publications include articles in New Theatre Quarterly and Performance Research. She currently is writing a book on the censorship of the stage in twentieth-century Britain.

James A. Knapp is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England: The Representation of History in Printed Brooks (2003), and his essays on book illustration and cultural poetics have appeared in Criticism, Disputatio, and ELH as well as in a variety of essay collections. He is currently the editor of JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory.

Jeffrey Pence is associate professor of English and of cinema studies at Oberlin College. His work has appeared in Public Culture, College Literature, Film and Philosophy, JNT: The Journal of Narrative Theory, MLQ, and other venues. Currently, he is developing a manuscript entitled "Unbelievable Truths: Cinema, Criticism, and Spirituality."