Contributors
- Contributors
Patricia Allerston is Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her Ph.D., from the Istituto Universitario Europeo in Florence, was on the second-hand trade in clothes and furnishings in early modern Venice. She has published on the functions of clothing in early modern Venetian society and on the meanings of consumer goods in Renaissance Venice.
Penelope Anderson is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of Friendship’s Shadows: Women’s Friendship and the Politics of Betrayal in England, 1640–1705 (2012). She has recently published in the Seventeenth Century an article on feminist queer temporalities in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder; another, on Katherine Philips’s translations and international law, is forthcoming. Her second book project, Humanity in Suspension: Gender and International Law in Seventeenth-Century Literature, has been supported by an American Council of Learned Societies Charles A. Ryskamp fellowship.
Deborah Lesko Baker is Professor and Chair of the Department of French at Georgetown University. A specialist in early modern lyric poetry and poetics in the Petrarchan and classical traditions, she is the author of The Subject of Desire: Petrarchan Poetics and the Female Voice in Louise Labé (1996) and Narcissus and the Lover: Recovery and Reinvention in Maurice Scève’s ‘Délie’ (1986), as well as articles on Renaissance poetry and mythic structures in literary texts. She is the editor and co-translator of the first bilingual critical edition of Louise Labé’s Complete Works (2006). Her latest article on Labé’s “Diana” and its intertexts appeared in EMWJ (volume 8; 2013), and an article on the early modern devotional poet, [End Page 249] Gabrielle de Coignard is forthcoming in Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme.
Andrew Bretz is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Guelph, specializing in early modern poetry and drama. His dissertation investigated the representation of rape and sexual assault on the early modern stage. He has previously published in Modern Philology, Notes and Queries, ROMARD, and ESC and has a book chapter in the collection Outerspeares (2014), as well as an edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2015). He is currently developing a book from his post-doctoral research with the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project.
Rebecca Parker Brienen is Vennerberg Chair of Art; Head of the Department of Art, Graphic Design, and Art History; and Director of the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Oklahoma State University. She has published widely on early modern Dutch art and colonial art. Her books include Visions of Savage Paradise: Albert Eckhout, Court Painter in Colonial Dutch Brazil, 1637–1644 (2006, 2nd ed. 2010) and the edited volume Invasion and Transformation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico (2008).
Aránzazu Borrachero Mendíbil is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Queensborough Community College (CUNY). She has published a critical and annotated edition of Clara Catalina Ramírez de Guzmán, Obra poética, in collaboration with Karl McLaughlin (2010); and Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Women’s Fiction (2011). During the last three years, she has been developing a web-based oral history project that gathers, preserves, and makes available the testimonies of Spanish women who became adults and mothers during the Francoist dictatorship, and whose daughters came of age during the Spanish transition to democracy and its subsequent democratic governments.
Mary Baine Campbell is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University, and author of The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400–1600 (1988), Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe (1999), and two collections of poetry; her current research focuses on the study of early modern dreams and dream interpretation in Britain, France, and the New World. [End Page 250]
Rev. John J. Conley, S.J. holds the Henry J. Knott Chair of Philosophy and Theology at Loyola University, Maryland. Publications include The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France (2002) and Adoration and Annihilation: The Convent Philosophy of Port-Royal (2009).
Grace E. Coolidge is Professor of History at Grand Valley State University in Michigan...
