Contributors
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Elizabeth Ann Mackay is an Assistant Professor in the University of Dayton's English Department, where she teaches courses in early English literature, Shakespeare, early modern women writers, and composition. She is currently completing a book project that explores early modern mother-daughter instructional relationships and how maternity intervenes in the traditions of intellectual education, pedagogy, and rhetoric; other scholarly projects attend to intersecting representations of early modern rhetorics and women, particularly women writers of the period.
Kelly McDonough (White Earth Ojibwe/Irish) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Learned Ones: Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico (2014), as well as various articles on indigenous literacies, inter-indigenous class conflict, and Mexican indigenous literatures. McDonough serves on the inaugural editorial boards of both the NAIS (Native American and Indigenous Studies) journal and Hispanic Issues.
Abigail Shinn is a Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK. She is the co-editor, alongside Andrew Hadfield and Matthew Dimmock, of the Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2014). She is also the co-editor, alongside Peter Mazur, of the Journal of Early Modern History special issue "Narrating Conversion in the Early Modern World" 17 (2013). Her monograph project Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England: Tales of Turning is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan. [End Page 153]
Meili Steele is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. He works on philosophy and literature in the modern period. In addition to many articles, he has published four books: Realism and the Drama of Reference: Strategies of Representation in Balzac, Flaubert, and James (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988), Theorizing Textual Subjects: Agency and Oppression (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Critical Confrontations: Literary Theories in Dialogue (University of South Carolina Press, 1997) and Hiding from History: Politics and Public Imagination (Cornell University Press, 2005). His book project is on literature and public reasoning.
William Steffen is a Doctoral Candidate in the English department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His graduate work focuses on early modern drama and the environmental humanities. He is working on a dissertation about how the natural world mediates new ways of understanding the effects of economic expansion and colonialism on the early modern English stage.
Bethany Williamson is Assistant Professor of English at Biola University. Her current book project, Orienting Virtue, explores how early modern British writers rework notions of political virtue in response to globalization. Her article "English Republicanism and Global Slavery in Henry Neville's Isle of Pines" has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Fiction. [End Page 154]
