Notes on Contributors
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Pompa Banerjee teaches at the University of Colorado Denver where she offers courses on early modern literature, international perspectives, and humanities. She received her PhD in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her research examines the literary and cultural dimensions of Europe's cross-cultural encounters, especially the ways in which they shape identity and space in the age of discovery. She is the author of Burning Women: Widows, Witches and Early Modern European Travelers in India (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). Her essays on Shakespeare, early modern drama, Milton, early modern culture and film, and European witchcraft appear in Shakespeare Survey, Milton Studies, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and other journals. She is currently writing on drama and culture.
Heather Dalton is an honorary fellow in the School of Historical & Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. The focus of her research is transnational relationships in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Atlantic and early contacts between Australasia and Europe. Her recent publications include: 'A Sulphur-crested Cockatoo in Fifteenth-Century Mantua: Rethinking Symbols of Sanctity and Patterns of Trade', Renaissance Studies, 28.5 (2014), 676–94; and Merchants and Explorers: Roger Barlow, Sebastian Cabot and Networks of Atlantic Exchange, 1500–1560 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).
Roland Hui received his Bachelors degree in Art History from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. After completing his studies, he went on to work in Interpretive Media for California State Parks, The US Forest Service, and The National Park Service. His book The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens (Made Global Publishing) was released in 2017. Roland's chief interest is in sixteenth-century English art, which he writes about at Tudor Faces: <https://tudorfaces.blogspot.ca/>.
Emre Koyuncu received his doctorate in Theory and Cultural Studies at Purdue University in 2014. His main research interests are in animal studies, Hellenistic philosophy and twentieth-century continental philosophy, and he has published in several Turkish scholarly journals, on animal studies as well as on various aspects of the philosophies of Spinoza, Foucault, and Deleuze. He is the co-translator into Turkish of Deleuze's Foucault and Différence et Répétition. He is currently working as a part-time instructor in the Department of Philosophy at Middle East Technical University in Turkey. [End Page 225]
Pekka Niemelä is an emeritus professor of biodiversity and environmental science at the University of Turku, Finland. He has published around 200 peer-reviewed papers on the effect of climate change on forest and tundra ecosystems, biodiversity, plant–herbivore interactions and invasive forest pest and pathogens, as well as co-authoring articles on the history of medieval zoology with Jukka Salo and Simo Örmä and a book on landscape paintings as evidence of environmental degradation with Markku Valkonen in 2017 (Vaelluksia maisemaan – Taiteen mestarit meren äärellä).
Simo Örmä is Intendant of the Finnish Institute in Rome (Institutum Romanum Finlandiae). He studied history and archaeology at the University of Turku (Finland) and in Italy. He has published widely on medieval cultural history, modern art and architecture, and Roman archaeology in English, Finnish, and Italian. His most recent publication, co-authored with Pekka Niemelä, is 'Lady with an "Ermine"', Source: Notes in the History of Art, 35.4 (2016), 302–10.
Nathan J. Ristuccia is a historian specializing in ancient and medieval Christianity. He received his doctorate in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame. After working for several years as a Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, he now teaches Latin at Rockbridge Academy in Maryland. His monograph, Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe: A Ritual Interpretation, comes out from Oxford University Press in spring 2018.
Elisabeth Rolston is currently an MA candidate in History at the University of Canterbury. Her research focuses on imperial ideology and the depiction of emperors in medieval historical writing, with an interest in both Byzantium and Western Europe. She also produced a new English translation of Canterbury, MS 1 for 'The Canterbury Roll – A Digital Edition', and has an ongoing involvement with the Canterbury Roll Project: <http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/canterburyroll/Intro/index.shtml>
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