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Bernadette Andrea is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is also affiliated with the Center for Middle East Studies and the Department of Feminist Studies. She is the author of The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture (2017) and Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature (2007). Her edited books include Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World, with Patricia Akhimie (2019); English Women Staging Islam, 1696–1707 (2012); and Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds, with Linda McJannet (2011). She has served as coeditor, with Julie D. Campbell and Allyson M. Poska, of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2017–2024), and as the President of the Shakespeare Association of America (2022–2023).

Michel Büch is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Hamburg. His interdisciplinary research bridges theatre and performance studies with critical race theory, psychoanalysis, affect theory, and neuroscience to enable a thorough critique of modernity and its lived realities today. Drawing on extensive experience in dramaturgy and cultural management, Büch uniquely integrates rigorous scholarship with practical theatre expertise and collaboration with academics and theatre professionals in his teaching. He is the author of Whiteface: Antiblackness and Improv Comedy (2022) and serves as production manager for the University Players.

Jiamiao Chen (陈佳苗) is a PhD candidate in the English Department of the University of Bristol. Her research interests include late medieval and early modern drama, medieval hagiography, and Geocriticism.

Erith Jaffe-Berg is Professor of Theatre at the Department of Theatre, Film and Digital Production at the University of California at Riverside. Her research focuses on the commedia dell’arte and performances by minority groups in Early Modern Italy. She is the author of Jewish Theatre Making in Mantua, 1520–1650 (2022), Commedia dell’Arte and the Mediterranean: Charting Journeys and Mapping “Others” (2015), and The Multilingual Theatre of Commedia dell’Arte (2008). She has published essays on early modern performance in journals such as I Tatti Studies, Theatre Survey, Early Theatre, and The Journal of Dramatic Theatre and Criticism. She has contributed to various anthologies, most recently The Palgrave Handbook on Theatre and Migration (2024), the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World (2023), and the Routledge Companion to Theatre History and Historiography (2021). She is a member of LA-based Theatre Dybbuk, a recipient of the UCR Distinguished Teaching Award, a recipient of a UC Humanities Research Institute fellowship and a Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation grant.

Patrick Maley is formerly an Associate Professor of English and currently an attorney in New Jersey. He is the author of After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama (University of Virginia Press, 2019). His scholarship appears in Modern Drama, The Eugene O’Neill Review, New Hibernia Review, Irish Studies Review, Field Day Review, Seton Hall Law Review, and an earlier volume of Comparative Drama, as well as in edited collections from Cambridge University Press, Northwestern University Press, and Rutgers University Press. He has contributed book and theatre reviews to African American Review, Theatre Journal, Theatre History Studies, Modern Drama, and The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. He is also an active theatre critic in New York and New Jersey. His reviews can be found on NJ.com and exeuntnyc.com.

John Saillant is professor of English and History at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes (2003), the co-editor, with Joanna Brooks, of “Face Zion Forward”: First Writers of the Black Atlantic (2002), and editor of Afro-Virginian History and Culture (1999; repr. 2013). He has published recently on black religion and resistance, in journals such as Nineteenth-Century Contexts (2024), Atlantic Studies (2023), and The CLR James Journal (2019), as well as on pedagogy flowing from the “black Atlantic,” in Early American Literature (2024). He teaches courses on early American and early African Atlantic topics.

Camilla Stevens is a Professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She specializes...