Sarah Beckwith is the author of Christ’s Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings (London: Routledge, 1993); Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2001); and numerous other essays on medieval and Renaissance dramatic and religious culture. She is Professor of English and Theater at Duke University, and is currently working on a book called Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness.
Patrick Cheney is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on early modern literature, including Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004) and Shakespeare’s Literary Authorship (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008). He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Poetry.
Elizabeth Fowler’s work in medieval and Renaissance literature ranges mainly from Chaucer to Milton and concerns the ethics and politics of notions of the person, the nature of political and jurisprudential thought as it occurs in the arts, and the bodily and social effects of poetry. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia and lives on the side of the Blue Ridge.
Rebecca Krug is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Reading Families: Women’s Literate Practice in Late Medieval England (2002; rpt. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2008). She is currently working on a book about Margery Kempe and medieval ‘self help’.
William Kuskin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism (2008) and the editor of Caxton’s Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing (2006), both published by the University of Notre Dame Press. He is currently working on two projects, a monograph on the relationship between fifteenth- and sixteenth-century literature, Recursive Origins, and a special issue of English Language Notes, ‘Graphia: Literary Criticism and the Graphic Novel’.
Karen Sawyer Marsalek is Associate Professor of English at St Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. She has published several essays on the resurrection motif in medieval and Renaissance drama and is co-editor of ‘Bring Furth the Pagants’: Essays in Early English Drama Presented to Alexandra F. Johnston (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2007). She is currently working on editions of Gammer Gurton’s Needle and The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth.
Michael O’Connell is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000) and of articles on Shakespeare and medieval drama. He is completing an edition and translation of three Florentine sacre rappresentazioni from the late fifteenth century.
Curtis Perry is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters on early modern English literature and culture, he is the author of The Making of Jacobean Culture (1997) and Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England (2006), and the editor of Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (2001) and Eros and Power in English Renaissance Drama: Five Plays by Marlowe, Davenant, Massinger, Ford, and Shakespeare (2008).
Brian Walsh is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Yale University. He recently completed a book manuscript on the history plays of the Queen’s Men and their influence on Shakespeare, and has published essays on Elizabethan drama in Shakespeare Quarterly, SEL, Theatre Journal, and elsewhere.
Christopher Warley teaches Renaissance poetry and critical theory at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Sonnet Sequences and Social Distinction in Renaissance England (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005), and is currently completing a book entitled Specters of Horatio: Reading Class in Renaissance Literature.
John Watkins is Professor of English, Medieval Studies, and Italian Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Specter of Dido: Spenser and the Virgilian Epic Tradition (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1995) and Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England: Literature, History, Sovereignty (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002). With Carole Levin, he is the author of Shakespeare’s Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2009).