Contributors
- Contributors
TAMARA ATKIN is Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. Her recent books include Early British Drama in Manuscript, which she coedited with Laura Estill, and Reading Drama in Tudor England.
KATHERINE STEELE BROKAW is Associate Professor of English and Chair of Literatures and Languages at University of California, Merced. She is the author of Staging Harmony: Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early English Drama, and several essays on Shakespeare and early modern dramatists. She is coeditor, with Jay Zysk, of Sacred and Secular Transaction in the Age of Shakespeare, and editor of the Arden performance edition of Macbeth. In 2017, she cofounded the annual Shakespeare in Yosemite festival, which produces free Shakespeare in Yosemite National Park every Earth Day weekend.
CHRISTA JANSOHN is Professor of British Culture at Bamberg University, Germany. Her publications include Shakespeare Apocrypha and Their Reception in Germany and bilingual editions of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, A Lover’s Complaint, and the narrative poems. She is editor of German Shakespeare Studies at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. She has coedited Shakespeare’s World: World Shakespeare, with Richard Fortheringham and Robert White; Shakespeare without Boundaries, with Lena Cowen Orlin and Stanley Wells; and Shakespeare Jubilees: 1769–2014, with Dieter Mehl.
MARGO KOLENDA-MASON is a PhD Candidate in English Literature at the University of Michigan. She thinks broadly about the intersection of economics and literature from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Her current project, Hardly Working, examines fruitless, unproductive, and impossible labor in medieval and early modern literature.
MARY ELLEN LAMB is Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University. Her books include Gender and Authorship in the Sidney Circle; The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson; and an abridged version of Mary Wroth’s Countess of Montgomery’s Urania. She is the editor of the Sidney Journal, and is on the editorial board of English Literary Renaissance. She is currently collaborating on an edition of poetry by William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke.
ALAN H. NELSON is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His specializations are paleography, bibliography, and the reconstruction of the literary life and times of medieval and Renaissance England from documentary sources. He is a major contributor of essays and transcriptions for the Folger Shakespeare Library website Shakespeare Documented.
WILLIAM TANNER recently received his PhD in early modern literature from Rutgers University. His essay is drawn from the final chapter of his book project, The Melancholy Malcontent in Early Modern Theater and Culture.
HENRY S. TURNER is Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he specializes in Renaissance drama, the history of science, and intellectual history. He is the author of The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts, 1580–1630; Shakespeare’s Double Helix; and The Corporate Commonwealth: Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516–1651. He is the editor of The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England and Early Modern Theatricality. With Mary Thomas Crane, he coedits the Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science book series.
JENNIFER LINHART WOOD is Editorial Associate for Shakespeare Quarterly at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She is the author of Sounding Otherness in Early Modern Drama and Travel: Uncanny Vibrations in the English Archive. Her scholarship is situated at the nexus of literature and music in the early modern period, and has been published in the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Shakespeare Studies, and various edited collections, including Gender and Song in Early Modern England. She and the choir she directs performed at Carnegie Hall in December 2019.
