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Contributors
Emma K. Atwood Emma K. Atwood is Associate Professor of English at the University of Montevallo, Alabama’s only public liberal arts university. At Montevallo, she directs the graduate program in English and teaches courses on Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and early modern women and gender. She has published articles in Comparative Drama, the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Borrowers and Lenders, and This Rough Magic. She is an editor of the forthcoming digital critical edition of The Court and Kitchin of Elizabeth Cromwell and is co-editor of the collection Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the Major.
Ariane M. Balizet is Professor of English and Associate Dean for Faculty and DEI at Texas Christian University. Her teaching and research interests include games and colonial competition in the early modern literary Caribbean, Shakespeare in adaptation, and intersectional approaches to teaching Renaissance literature. She is the author of two monographs: Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies (2029) and Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama: Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage (2014).
Cheryl Birdseye is an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. Her research considers the performance and reception of female testimony on the early modern stage, particularly relating to texts that take real crimes as their source.
Ann Christensen, professor of English at the University of Houston, is the author of Separation Scenes: Domestic Drama in Early Modern England 1590-1630 (U. Nebraska 2017) and A Warning for Fair Women: Adultery and Murder in Shakespeare’s Theater (U. Nebraska 2021), which is a modern critical edition of an anonymous 1599 play. Her work appears in Early Modern Studies Journal, Early Modern Literary Studies, Studies in English Literature, Marlowe Studies Annual, and Early Modern Women, as well as Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World (Ashgate, 2015) and Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550-1700 (Palgrave, 2008). Her most recent essays, “Editing the Renaissance for an Anti-Racist Classroom” with Laura B. Turchi appears in Teaching Race in the Renaissance, edited by Matthieu Chapman and Anna Wainwright and “Using Caste to Teach Intersectionality with Three Opening Scenes” is forthcoming in Design and Discomfort in Anti-Racist Shakespeare Classrooms both Arizona Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press.
Brent Griffin is the artistic director of Resurgens Theatre Company. A past member of the research staff at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, as well as a recent recipient of The Ben Jonson Journal’s Ben Jonson Discoveries Award, he holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance drama and performance studies from Florida State University, and serves as the founder and chair of Resurgens’ biennial academic conference on the verse dramas of Shakespeare’s contemporaries.
Molly Hand is an associate lecturer and director of the editing internship program in English at Florida State University. She co-edited Animals, Animality, and Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and recent essays appear in Early Theatre and Preternature. Her current research focuses on animals, ecocriticism, and early modern English witchcraft..
Joseph L. Kelly has enjoyed careers on the stage, in the classroom, and the courtroom. A regular performer with the Resurgens Theatre Company, his recent teachings includes Georgia State University, Morehouse College, and Emory University at Oxford. He earned his PhD from Georgia State University in 2021.
Barbara Sebek is Professor of English at Colorado State University. Her essay, “Edmund Hosts William: Appropriation, Polytemporality, and Postcoloniality in Frank McGuinness’s Mutabilitie,” appears in The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation (Routledge 2019). She co-edited and wrote the introduction to Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture, 1550-1700 (Palgrave 2008) and has published numerous essays on global approaches to Shakespeare and the economic contexts of early modern drama.