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Victoria Brownlee is an Irish Research Council post-doctoral fellow at University College Dublin. She has written on early modern womens writing and the Bible and has recently completed a monograph entitled Biblical Readings and Literary Writings: 15501640.
Dympna Callaghan is William L. Safire Professor in Modern Letters at Syracuse University. Her most recent book is WhoWas William Shakespeare? An Introduction to the Life and Works (2013). Her previous books include Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy (1989), Shakespeare Without Women (2000), Romeo and Juliet: Texts and Contexts (2003), Shakespeares Sonnets: An Introduction (2006), and the Norton Critical Edition of The Taming of the Shrew (2009). She is co-author of The Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics (1994) and editor of, among others, A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare (2001) and The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies (2007). She is General Editor of the series Arden Shakespeare: Language and Writing, and co-editor with Michael Dobson of the Palgrave Shakespeare Studies series.
Danielle Clarke is Associate Professor of English Renaissance Language and Literature at University College Dublin. She is the author of The Politics of Early Modern Womens Writing (2001), editor of Three Renaissance Women Poets: Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney and Aemilia Lanyer (2000) and co-editor of This Double Voice: Gendered Writing in Early Modern England (2000) and Teaching the Early Modern Period (2011). She has also written numerous articles and essays on womens writing and is now working on a book-length project on the negotiation of form, genre and language in Renaissance womens poetry.
Laura Gallagher is a postdoctoral teaching assistant in the School of English at Queens University, Belfast, and a Learning Development Assistant at the Universitys Learning Development Service. She completed her doctoral thesis, The Virgin Mary in the Early Modern Literary Imagination, in 2012 and is currently working on related articles.
Beatrice Groves is the Research Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at Trinity College, University of Oxford. She has published widely on early modern literature including the monograph Texts and Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare 15921604 (2007). She has recently completed a book entitled Jerusalem Destroyed: the Fall of a City in Early Modern English Literature.
Elizabeth Hodgson is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. In addition to articles and essays on John Milton, Katherine Philips and Aemilia Lanyer, she is the author of Gender and the Sacred Self in John Donne (1999). Her next book, Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at The Humanities Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University. She has written on Shakespeare, Marlowe and Ford as well as Jane Austen and Bram Stoker. Her publications include Shakespeare on the Edge: Border-Crossing in the Tragedies and the Henriad (2005), Christopher Marlowe, Renaissance Dramatist (2008), The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage (2008), Relocating Shakespeare and Austen on Screen (2009), and Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 15611633 (2011). She is the co-editor of Marian Moments in Early Modern British Drama (2007), Shakespeare the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, and the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides.
Michele Osherow is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is author of Biblical Womens Voices in Early Modern England (2009) and has written several essays on early modern appropriations of Old Testament narratives. She is currently researching a book on contemporary American productions of Shakespeare and is resident dramaturg for the Folger Theatre (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC).
Thomas Rist is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Aberdeen. He is author of Shakespeares Romances and the Politics of Counter-Reformation (1999) and Revenge Tragedy and the Drama of Commemoration in Reforming England (2008). He is co-editor of The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England: Memorial Cultures of the Post Reformation (2013) and has published a number of articles and essays on early modern literature and religious interaction. He is currently editing the Arden Early Modern Guide to The Spanish Tragedy.
Adrian Streete is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature in the School of English at Queens University, Belfast. He is the author of Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England (2009), editor of Early Modern Drama and the Bible: Contexts and Readings, 15701625 (2011), and co-editor of Refiguring Mimesis: Representation in Early Modern Literature (2005), Filming and Performing Renaissance History (2011), and The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts (2011). He has published a variety of essays and articles on early modern literature and has recently completed a book funded by the Leverhulme Trust examining anti-Catholicism and apocalypticism in seventeenth-century drama.
Alison Thorne is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Strathclyde. She is the author of Vision and Rhetoric in Shakespeare: Looking through Language (2000) and co-editor of Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England (2007). She is the author of a number of articles and chapters on Shakespeare and feminine speech genres and is currently writing a book on the politics of female supplication in the literature and culture of early modern England.
