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  • Contributors

THOMAS ANDERSON
Thomas Anderson is professor of English at Mississippi State University where he teaches courses on Shakespeare and critical theory. He is the author of Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton and co-editor, with Ryan Netzley, of a book on Foxe’s Actes and Monuments. His current book, Shakespeare’s Fugitive Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), explores how a contemporary notion of radical politics takes shape in Shakespeare’s plays. His essays on early modern drama and poetry have appeared in Criticism, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, English Literary Renaissance, Milton Quarterly, and Shakespeare Bulletin.

RICHARD BURT
Richard Burt was Professor of English and Loser Studies at the University of Florida. He was the co-author, with Julian Yates, of What’s the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shakespeare? (Palgrave, 2013) and the author of Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media (Palgrave, 2008); Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture (Palgrave, 1999), and Licensed by Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship (Cornell University Press, 1993). He was also the editor of Shakespeares After Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of the Bard in Mass Media and Popular Culture; Shakespeare After Mass Media (Greenwood 2006); and The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere (University of Minnesota Press, 1994 ). He was the co-editor of Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England, Shakespeare the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video (Cornell University Press, 1994), and Shakespeare the Movie, II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD (Routledge, 2003). Burt published more than forty articles and book chapters on topics including Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, literary theory, film adaptation, the Middle Ages in film and media, the erotics of pedagogy, stupidity, cinematic paratexts, biopolitics, posthumography, and censorship. [End Page 154]

COLBY GORDON
Colby Gordon is Assistant Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of articles on host desecration and secularism, Shakespeare and design, and soft architecture in Antony and Cleopatra. He is currently at work on a study of the legal dimensions of dwelling in early modern literature.

ELLEN MACKAY
Ellen MacKay is associate professor of English at Indiana University and Director of IU’s Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities. She is author of Persecution, Plague and Fire: Fugitive Histories of the Stage in Early Modern England (University of Chicago Press, 2011), and is working on several new books—one on Renaissance audiences as states of collective unconsciousness, one on Shakespeare realia, and one on sea spectacles and the history of vicariousness.

RYUTA MINAMI
Ryuta Minami is professor of English at Tokyo University of Economics, Japan. He has published extensively on the reception of Shakespeare in Asia, Shakespeare and popular culture, and 18th-century English drama in English and Japanese. He co-edited Performing Shakespeare in Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia (Routledge, 2009). He has also published book chapters on topics including the cultural significance of Shakespeare in Japan, and contemporary and traditional performances of Shakespeare’s plays.

JULIA REINHARD LUPTON
Julia Reinhard Lupton is professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, where she also serves as Associate Dean for Research for the School of Humanities. She is the author or co-author of four books on Shakespeare, including Thinking with Shakespeare (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and Citizen-Saints (University of Chicago Press, 2006). She also writes about design and the secret life of things with her sister, Ellen Lupton. She is a Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America and a former Guggenheim Fellow. Her current book project is entitled “Shakespeare Dwelling: Habitation, Hospitality, Design.” [End Page 155]

VIOLA TIMM
Viola Timm, independent researcher based in Berlin, Germany, former Mellon Fellow of German at Johns Hopkins University, Assistant Professor of German and Arts Professions at New York University, and Visiting Professor of Pubic Health at UNIFOR, Brazil, wrote a dissertation titled Shakespeare’s Hamlet in German Letters: Mourning becomes Translation at the University of California, Santa Barbara, an unpublished book length study The Enginer’s Tale: Shakespeare and the Modern Mass Media, was a Senior Editor...

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