Roberta Barker is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Theatre at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the author of Early Modern Tragedy, Gender and Performance, 1984–2000: The Destined Livery (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Her articles have appeared in Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Quarterly, Early Theatre, Modern Drama, Canadian Theatre Review, Literature Compass and EMLS. Among her credits as a director are productions of The Witch of Edmonton, Fuente Ovejuna, Troilus and Cressida and Henry IV, Part One.
Todd A. Borlik is Assistant Professor of English at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Shakespeare Bulletin, The Shakespeare Newsletter, Early Theatre and Literature/Film Quarterly. His first book, entitled Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature: Green Pastures, will be published by Routledge in the fall of 2010.
Dympna Callaghan is Dean’s Professor in Humanities at Syracuse University. Her books include Woman and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy (1989), Shakespeare Without Women (2000) The Sonnets (2007) as well as John Webster’s ‘Duchess of Malfi’: Contemporary Critical Essays (2000), The Feminist Companion to Shakespeare (2000) and a Bedford contextual edition of Romeo and Juliet (2003), the anthology, The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies (2007) and The Norton Critical edition of The Taming of the Shrew (2009).
Christy Desmet is Professor of English at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Reading Shakespeare’s Characters: Rhetoric, Ethics, and Identity (University of Massachusetts Press 1992). She is the co-editor (with Robert Sawyer) of Shakespeare and Appropriation (Routledge, 1999) and of Harold Bloom’s Shakespeare (Palgrave, 2001). With Anne Williams, she has edited Shakespearean Gothic. And with Sujata Iyengar, she is co-founder and co-general editor of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation.
Frances E. Dolan is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), Whores of Babylon: Gender, Catholicism, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture (Cornell, 1999; paperback edition with new preface from University of Notre Dame Press, 2005), and Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550–1700 (Cornell, 1994). She is also the editor of The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts (Bedford, 1996), and of five plays for the new Pelican Shakespeare.
David Gunby is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, his alma mater, where he taught for more than 30 years following his return from Cambridge, having completed a PhD on the relationship of Anglican theology and Jacobean tragedy under the supervision of Muriel Bradbrook. Though he has published on other dramatists of the period, including Shakespeare, Marston and Tourneur, his overriding passion has been John Webster. He edited John Webster: Three Plays in the Penguin English Classics series, and is co-editor of the Cambridge University Press edition of The Works of John Webster, the fourth and final volume of which, covering the plays written in collaboration with Dekker, Fletcher, Ford and Massinger, is now in preparation.
Christina Luckyj is Professor of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the author of ‘A Moving Rhetoricke:’ Gender and Silence in Early Modern England (Manchester University Press, 2002) and ‘A Winter’s Snake’: Dramatic Form in the Tragedies of John Webster (University of Georgia Press, 1989) and editor of The New Mermaids edition of The White Devil by John Webster (A&C Black 2008). She has published essays in MLA Approaches to Teaching Renaissance Drama, English Studies in Canada, Enacting Gender on the Renaissance Stage, Renaissance Drama, Studies in English Literature, Performing Maternity in Early Modern England and English Literary Renaissance.
Leah S. Marcus is Edwin Mims Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Childhood and Cultural Despair (1978), The Politics of Mirth (1986), Puzzling Shakespeare (1988) and Unediting the Renaissance (1996), and has edited two volumes of the Writings of Queen Elizabeth I (2000, 2002, with Janel Mueller and Mary Beth Rose), Norton Critical Editions of The Merchant of Venice (2006) and As You Like It (2011) and an Arden Early Modern Drama edition of The Duchess of Malfi (2009).
Curtis Perry is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Among his publications are two book-length studies of early modern English literature and political culture: The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice (1997) and Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England (2006). He has edited two books – Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (2001) and Eros and Power in English Renaissance Drama: Five Plays by Marlowe, Davenant, Massinger, Ford, and Shakespeare (2008) – and recently co-edited (with John Watkins) a third, entitled Shakespeare & the Middle Ages (2009).
Melissa Walter teaches English and Renaissance literature at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia. She has published articles on early modern prose, drama, transnational exchange and especially the Italian novella in England.