Contributors
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Dennis Austin Britton is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. His areas of research include early modern English literature, European Christian encounters with Muslims, Reformation theology, and race and ethnicity studies. He is the author of Becoming Christian: Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance (Fordham UP, 2014).
Ronald W. Cooley is Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. A specialist in the literary, cultural and social history of early modern England, he is the author of numerous essays on Herbert, Shakespeare and Milton, and one monograph, Full of All Knowledge: George Herbert’s Country Parson and Early Modern Social Discourse (2004). His current research focuses on early modern Kent and the literary iconography of place.
Trudi L. Darby is Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the London Shakespeare Centre at King’s College London. She has edited William Rowley’s A Shoemaker, A Gentleman for Shakespeare’s Globe and is the textual editor for Much Ado About Nothing in the forthcoming third edition of the Norton Shakespeare. She specialises in the influence of Spanish literature, especially Cervantes’s prose fictions, on Jacobean drama, on which she has published several articles and chapters.
Ari Friedlander is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Dayton. He has published essays in SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500- 1900, A Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, Race (Oxford, forthcoming 2015), and Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies. His current [End Page 138] book project, Rogue Sexuality: The Erotics of Social Status in Early Modern England, traces the literary figure of the rogue from a criminal to a more normative social register, arguing that rogue sexual liberty acted as a powerful solvent of social boundaries and helped produce early modern England as a profoundly unsettled socio-sexual world.
Nick Jones is Specializing in race, gender, and sexuality in the early modern Ibero-Atlantic world, Nick Jones’s research examines the articulation of agency, subjectivity, and the performance of black diasporic identity-formation in early modern Spain and Portugal as well as their colonial territories across the globe. Of particular interest to him are the various ways in which European senses and sensibilities codify and theorize Blackness. Rooted in Africana philosophy and critical theory, Professor Jones’s work engages in close readings of the body with particular interest in blackface and whiteface performance, clothing, cosmetics, food studies, human- animal studies, as well as early modern material and visual cultures.
Rebecca Olson is Assistant Professor of English at Oregon State University. She is the author of Arras Hanging: The Textile That Determined Early Modern Literature and Drama (Delaware, 2014), as well as articles on Shakespeare, Spenser, and the teaching of early British literature. Her ongoing research interests include word/image studies, early modern material culture, and Tudor poetry and drama.
Anita Gilman Sherman is an Associate Professor of Literature at American University and the author of Skepticism and Memory in Shakespeare and Donne (2007). She has published essays on Garcilaso de la Vega, Herbert of Cherbury, Thomas Heywood, Michel de Montaigne, W. G. Sebald, and others in journals such as Criticism, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Shakespeare Quarterly, The Shakespearean International Yearbook, Sin Nombre, Studies in English Literature, and Texas Studies in Language and Literature. Her current book project, The Skeptical Imagination: Paradoxes of Secularization in English Literature, 1579–1681, extends her work on early modern skepticism, investigating its effects on various authors, including Spenser, Cavendish, and Marvell. [End Page 139]
