Contributors
- Contributors
Abdulhamit Arvas is Assistant Professor of European Theater at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in early modern literature and culture with a focus on gender and sexuality, cross-cultural encounters, and race. He has published articles on early modern Anglo-Ottoman encounters, homoeroticism in English and Ottoman literature, Shakespeare adaptations, and contemporary sexual politics in Turkey. He is currently working on a book project that explores English and Ottoman sexualities with a focus on abductions and conversions of boys in the Mediterranean during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Laura Williamson Ambrose is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Humanistic Studies at Saint Mary's College (Notre Dame, IN). Her research and published work focus on domestic mobility, the history of cartography, women and travel, transport technology, and the history of reading in early modern English literature and culture. Her most recent publications appear in Renaissance Studies (2019), Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), and The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Charles Beem is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke. His publications include The Lioness Roared: The Problems of Female Rule in English History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), The Royal Minorities of Medieval and Early Modern England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), The Name of a Queen: William Fleetwood's Itinerarium ad Windsor (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), The Man Behind the Queen: Male Consorts in History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and Queenship in Early Modern Europe (Red Globe Macmillan, forthcoming).
Yoojung Choi is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Texas A&M University. Her dissertation examines the cultural significance of women's increased mobility in eighteenth century literature through analysis of travel narratives written by professional women writers such as Delarivier Manley, Mary Davys, Penelope Aubin, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Her project argues that their travel writing challenged the negative stigma against women's travel as promiscuous and elevated its status to something respectable, thereby refashioning their authorial images as intellectual and virtuous travel writers.
Susan M. Cogan is Assistant Professor of Early Modern European History at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. A historian of late medieval and early modern England, she is interested in Catholic and Protestant efforts at maintaining social concord during a period of deep social and religious change. Her research focuses on how social, cultural, and political networks fostered different types of social coexistence in the English Midlands, circa 1450–1630. Her current book projects are the monograph Kinship, Society, and Religious Coexistence in Early Modern England and Sibling Relationships in Early Modern England (coedited with Rosemary O'Day).
Alexandra Coller is Associate Professor and Director of the Italian Program at Lehman College, City University of New York. She has published a number of articles on women, gender, drama, early opera, Renaissance books of conduct, and Renaissance tragedy. She is the author of Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy (Routledge, 2017). In addition, she is the editor and translator of two volumes of Italian women's pastoral drama from the seventeenth-century currently in preparation for The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series (forthcoming, 2020). Coller is currently at work on a second monograph, "Women and Letterati in Italian Dialogues and Treatises of the Late Renaissance."
Veronica Copello is a post-doc at Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (Florence). After earning her PhD at the University of Pisa joint with the Université de Genève, she was a post-doc at the Université de Fribourg and an Italian Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She has published on Ariosto
—Valori e funzioni delle similitudini nell'Orlando furioso (I Libri di Emil, 2013), and the entry Ottava in the Lessico critico dell'Orlando furioso (Carocci, 2016)—and on Vittoria Colonna in "Italian Studies" (2017) and "Testo" (2017), among other contributions.
Heidi Craig is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University and editor of the World Shakespeare Bibliography. She previously held a Folger-Mellon Long-Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library (2018–2019). Her first book...
