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  • Contributors

LEEDS BARROLL is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland (UMBC) and a Scholar-in-Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library. He is the author of several book-length studies, including Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultural Biography. His most recent works are “Shakespeare and His Fellows: Honored at Somerset House?,” in The Text, the Play, and the Globe and “The Masquing of Nobles at the Stuart Court,” forthcoming in Performances at Court in Shakespeare’s Era.

PAUL D. CANNAN is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He is the author of The Emergence of Dramatic Criticism in England: From Jonson to Pope and of essays on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century drama and Shakespeare.

DAVID HILLMAN is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of King’s College. Author of Shakespeare’s Entrails: Belief, Scepticism and the Interior of the Body and Shakespeare and Freud, he has also edited or coedited The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature, The Book of Interruptions, The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe, and Authority and Representation in Early Modern Discourse. He is currently working on a monograph, Greetings and Partings in Shakespeare and Early Modern England.

LAURIE JOHNSON is Associate Professor in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Queensland and is current President of the Australian and New zealand Shakespeare Association. His books include Shakespeare’s Lost Playhouse: Eleven Days at Newington Butts (forthcoming), Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare’s Theater: The Early Modern Body-Mind (edited with John Sutton and Evelyn Tribble), and The Tain of Hamlet.

GAIL MARSHALL is Head of the School of Literature and Languages at the University of Reading. She works on the Victorian period, and she has written on the Victorian novel, actresses, and Shakespeare’s Victorian afterlives. She is currently completing a book on 1859, which includes an account of George Eliot’s life and work during that year. [End Page 212]

PAUL MENZER is Professor and Director of the Shakespeare and Performance Program at Mary Baldwin University. His recent books include Anecdotal Shakespeare: A New Performance History and Shakespeare in the Theatre: The American Shakespeare Center. Forthcoming publications include a performance edition of Romeo and Juliet from Arden Shakespeare and a critical edition of Doctor Faustus from New Mermaids.

MATTHEW J. SMITH teaches Renaissance literature and drama at Azusa Pacific University. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street: Theatricality and Religion in Early Modern England, and coeditor with Julia Lupton of the forthcoming volume, Face to Face in Shakespearean Drama: Ethics, Philosophy, Performance. He also serves as Associate Editor of Christianity and Literature.

STEPHEN SPENCER is a PhD candidate in English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His dissertation, tentatively titled Joy Shall Overtake Us: Radical Protestant Affect in the Age of Milton, puts neo-Spinozean conceptions of joy into conversation with the Puritan Revolution in order to unearth the period’s identity politics of sainthood and query the secular foundation of contemporary theories of affect. He also works as a Book Reviews Assistant at the Renaissance Society of America.

MICHAEL WINSTANLEY “retired” as Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University in 2010; he remains a life member of the university and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His publications range from the sixteenth to early twentieth century but specialize in the regional history of Northwest England, especially Lancashire, and explore subjects as diverse as Lord Burghley’s map of the county; regional connections with the West Indies; and rural, industrial, and commercial history. His current research includes a study of catalogues of early Catholic martyrs.

JENNIFER LINHART WOOD teaches at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and is an Editorial Associate at Shakespeare Quarterly. Her work has appeared in several collections, including Gender and Song in Early Modern England, as well as the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies and Shakespeare Studies. Her current book project, Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel Literature (forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan), explores uncanny sonic encounters between various early modern cultures. [End Page 213]

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