Contributors
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Greg Bentley is Associate Professor in the English Department at Mississippi State University. He teaches courses in Renaissance literature and modern drama. He has published essays on Thomas Kyd, Robert Greene, Shakespeare, and Donne in a variety of journals.
Jonathan Burton is an Associate Professor of English at Whittier College in Los Angeles where he teaches classes on Shakespeare, Transcultural Literature, and Early Modern Culture. He is the author of Traffic and Turning: Islam and English Drama, 1579–1624 (U of Delaware P, 2005) and co-editor with Ania Loomba of Race in Early Modern England (Palgrave, 2007).
Sarah E. Connell is a Ph.D. candidate at Northeastern University and is to defend her dissertation, which is titled “‘No Room in History’: Genre and Identity in British and Irish National Histories, 1541–1691,” in 2014. Her research examines the intersection of colonialism and national identities in the historical texts of medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland, and in 2011 she published an article, “Writing on the Land of Ireland: Nationality, Textuality, and Geography in the Acallam na Senórach,” in Hortulus.
Daniel Juan Gil is Professor of English at Texas Christian University. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Anti-Politics: Sovereign Power and the Life of the Flesh (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Before Intimacy: Asocial Sexuality and Early Modern England (U of Minnesota P, 2006). He is currently working on a book about early modern resurrection beliefs and the birth of a sociological perspective on the body. [End Page 150]
Sophia Booth Magnone is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her dissertation considers the possibilities of nonhuman agency emerging from the ambiguous and overlapping categories of human, animal, and object in speculative fiction.
Lynn Maxwell is a lecturer at Spelman College. Her current book project examines how early modern authors use wax to conceptualize various relationships such as those between the self and other, male and female, art and nature, and subject and object. Her work suggests that what it means to be human in the period might be best figured through wax.
Ryan Netzley is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of Lyric Apocalypse: Milton, Marvell, and the Nature of Events (Fordham UP, 2014) and Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Religious Poetry (U of Toronto P, 2011). He has also co-edited a collection of essays on John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and the impact of digital and print technologies on reading practice. He is currently at work on a study of the conceptual relationship between debt and allegiance in cavalier and other loyalist verse in the seventeenth-century.
Katherine Shrieves is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She received her doctorate in 2013 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently working on a book-length project about transformative reading in early modern “hieroglyphic” texts, both literary and natural philosophical. Her current research also includes work on rhetorical effectiveness and self-representational narratives in Shakespeare’s history plays. [End Page 151]
