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  • Contributors

Peter DeGabriele is Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi State University. He has published work in English Literary History and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and he is currently working on a book manuscript entitled The Literary Theory of the Political: Sovereign and Subject in Eighteenth-Century England.

Lara Dodds is Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of English at Mississippi State University. She is the author of The Literary Invention of Margaret Cavendish (2013). She is currently working on a book project on the passions and early modern women's literary history.

Lauren Garrett is a doctoral student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation, "The Book on Debt: Playing with Economics and Affection in Early Modern English Literature," examines the continuities and boundaries between debt's economic and affective discourses and the serious play of authors and genres around these discursive intersections.

Stuart Hampton-Reeves is Professor of Research-informed Teaching and Head of the Graduate Research School at the University of Central Lancashire (UK). His research interests include contemporary Shakespeare in performance and Shakespeare's history plays. His publications include (with Carol Chillington Rutter) Shakespeare in Performance: the Henry VI Plays (2006), (with Bridget Escolme) Shakespeare and the Making of Theatre (2012), and (with Dermot Cavanagh and Stephen Longstaffe) Shakespeare's Histories and Counter-histories [End Page 187] (2011). He is the General Editor of the Palgrave series Shakespeare in Practice and is currently Head of the British Shakespeare Association.

Peter C. Herman's most recent books are Destabilizing Milton: "Paradise Lost" and Poetics of Incertitude (2005), A Short History of Early Modern England (2011), and The New Milton Criticism (2012), co-edited with Elizabeth Sauer. He is currently working on literary representations of terrorism, and has essays forthcoming on Macbeth and John Updike's Terrorist. He teaches at San Diego State University.

Shannon Kelley is currently Assistant Professor of Literature at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. She specializes in Renaissance lyric and drama, with additional research interests in Environmental Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research explores exceptional nonhumans of the greenworld—coral, fossil tree resin, amber inclusions, shells, and minerals—and the many ways these entities challenge human sovereignty and classic taxonomy. Current projects underway include "Amber, the Grief of Trees, and the Poetics of Trauma in Marvell's 'The Nymph Complaining,'" "Resurrection Shells," and "Flood: Crisis and the Post-Natural in the Renaissance Garden."

Ania Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism (2002), Colonialism-Postcolonialism (1998; second edition 2005, third edition, forthcoming), and Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama (1989; 1992). She is co-editor of South Asian Feminisms (2012), Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion (2007); Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (2005) and Post-Colonial Shakespeares (1998). She is also editor of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (2012 Norton Critical Edition). She is currently co-editing (with Melissa Sanchez), Rethinking Feminism in the Early Modern World, forthcoming from Ashgate, and working on a study of left-wing Indian women of the 1940s.

Madhavi Menon is Professor of Literature at American University, and the author of Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance [End Page 188] Literature (2004), Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film (2008), and editor of Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare (2011). She has just completed a book titled Indifference, or Queer Universalism.

Kelly Neil is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at the University of California, Davis. Her doctoral research focuses on representations of suicide on the early modern stage, and in particular her dissertation looks at how suicide committed by marginalized characters politicizes the playhouse.

Mark Netzloff is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of England's Internal Colonies: Class, Capital, and the Literature of Early Modern English Colonialism (2003) and the editor of John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue: A Critical Edition (2010). He is currently completing a book on the writings of English state agents in early...

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