Joseph Candido is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, where he teaches courses on Renaissance literature and drama. He has published extensively on Shakespeare’s history plays and is editor of the King John volume in the Athlone Critical Tradition series (1996).
R. W. Desai, is a retired Professor of English at Delhi University, author of Yeats’s Shakespeare (Northwestern University Press, 1971) and Shakespearean Latencies (Doaba House, 2002), as well as articles in journals in the U.K., the U.S., and India. He has also written an epistolary novel Frailty Thy Name is (W) O Man (Har-Anand, 1993), and a collection of short stories, Of War and War’s Alarms and Twenty-one Other Stories (Emerald Publishers, 2005). Recently, he and his wife Jyoti made a film of six key scenes from Hamlet, each followed by a panel discussion; Delhi University has commissioned them to make a similar film on Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.
Charles R. Forker is Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of a major study of John Webster (Skull Beneath the Skin, 1986) and has edited Shakespeare’s Arden 3 Richard II (2002). He has contributed innumerable essays to scholarly journals on Shakespeare and his contemporaries. His most recent book is a critical edition of Peele’s Troublesome Reign of John, King of England (2011) for the Revels Plays.
Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University and co-editor of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, and the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides. Her recent publications include Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561-1633 (Ashgate, 2011) and The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage (Ashgate, 2008).
Mythili Kaul, retired Professor of English, University of Delhi, India, is the editor of “Othello”: New Essays by Black Writers (Howard University Press, 1997). He has published articles on Shakespeare in several journals, including Notes & Queries, American Notes & Queries, Shakespeare Studies, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Hamlet Studies, and The Upstart Crow.
John W. Mahon is Professor Emeritus of English at Iona College, New Rochelle, New York. He has co-edited The Shakespeare Newsletter since 1991 and published in Hamlet Studies and elsewhere. He co-edited a Festschrift for Harold Jenkins and, more recently, co-edited “The Merchant of Venice”: New Critical Essays (Routledge, 2002). His New Kittredge edition of The Tempest nears completion.
John O’Meara taught for many years at Concordia University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Ottawa. His thoughts on Shakespeare and Luther date back to 1977 and first appeared in published form in Hamlet Studies in 1988. Shakespeare, the Goddess, and Modernity, which collects many of his published essays, mostly Shakespearean, appeared in 2012.
Shormishtha Panja is professor of English and Joint Director, Institute of Lifelong Learning, at the University of Delhi, India. She is the president of the Shakespeare Society of India and has taught at Stanford University. She has numerous articles and a number of books to her credit, including Signifying the Self: Women and Literature (coedited) (Macmillan, 2004, rpt. 2007); Word, Image, Text: Studies in Literary and Visual Culture (coedited) (Orient BlackSwan, 2009); Shakespeare and the Art of Lying (Orient BlackSwan, in press); and Shakespeare and Class (Pearson, in press). She has been awarded a fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.
Subhajit Sen Gupta, Assistant Professor of English at Vidyasagar University, Midnapur, India, wrote a doctoral thesis on Shakespeare’s history plays and completed a project on Indian adaptations and appropriations of Shakespeare. In addition to regularly publishing essays on Shakespeare and Renaissance studies, he is editing Macbeth for Worldview Publishers, New Delhi. In 2006, he played Lear in a critically acclaimed production of King Lear in Kolkata.
Stuart Sillars is Professor of English at the University of Bergen, Norway. His most recent books are Shakespeare, Time and the Victorians: A Pictorial Exploration (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Shakespeare and the Victorians (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Grace Tiffany teaches Renaissance literature at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. She is editor of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (Cengage, 2012) and coeditor of Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” (MLA, 2014). She has authored several scholarly books and numerous articles on Shakespeare, as well as historical fiction. Her latest book is Paint, a novel set in Elizabethan London. She maintains a blog at www.shakespearefiction.blogspot.com.
R. S. White is the Winthrop Professor of English at the University of Western Australia and is Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions. He has published books on Shakespeare, natural law, natural rights, pacifism in literature, and a literary life of John Keats. He is now researching Shakespeare and film genres.