Robert Appelbaum, Lecturer in Renaissance Studies, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, is the author of Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England and numerous articles. He is currently at work on a study of literature, culture, and food in Europe, 1470–1700.
Pompa Banerjee, Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Denver, is the author of Burning Women: Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers as well as numerous essays on early modern international relations.
Lisa Blansett directs the writing program at Wheelock College. She is completing three manuscripts: Atlas of the Imagination; Cartographies: British Fiction and Mapping, 1700–1817; and Janet Schaw's Journal of a Lady of Quality: Travels in the Caribbean with Historical and Critical Appendices.
Jess Edwards lectures in Early Modern English literature at London Metropolitan University. He is the author of the forthcoming Geometry, Writing, and Space in Seventeenth-Century England and America.
Eric Griffin, Associate Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies, Millsaps College, is the author of several articles on Anglo-Hispanic literary relations, and is currently completing a manuscript entitled Ethno-Poetics and Empire.
Michael J. Guasco, who teaches history at Davidson College, received his Ph.D. in 2000 from the College of William and Mary. His current research focuses on the development of slavery in Anglo-America.
Andrew Hadfield, Professor of English at the University of Sussex, is the author of three books on Ireland and English colonialism: Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance; Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruit and Salvage Soyl; and Literature, Travel and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545–1625.
Peter C. Herman, Professor of English at San Diego State University, is the author of Squitter-Wits and Muse-Haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance Antipoetic Sentiment and the editor of five recent anthologies of essays.
James Horn, Director of the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, is the author of Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake.
Susan Iwanisziw received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the editor of Troping “Oroonoko” from Behn to Bandele and coeditor, with Jessica Munns, of “Oroonoko”: Adaptations and Offshoots, forthcoming.
Constance Jordan, Professor Emeritus of English, Claremont Graduate University, is the author of two books, Renaissance Feminism and Shakespeare's Monarchies, as well as numerous articles. She is also the coeditor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature and editor of a new edition of Hamlet.
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Silver Professor of History, New York University, is the award-winning author of a number of books on early colonial experience in America, including Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America; Major Problems in American Colonial History; and Providence Island, 1630–1641: The Other Puritan Colony. She is also editor of America in European Consciousness, 1493–1750.
Emily Rose, Senior Research Associate at the City University of New York, currently holds visiting fellowships at New Hall College, Cambridge University and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is at work on a monograph entitled Company Colony, Court: The Triangular Politics of Virginia, 1619–1625.
John Wood Sweet, who teaches history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is the author of Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730–1830.
Alden T. Vaughan is Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. Among his publications are New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians, 1620–1675; American Genesis: Captain John Smith and the Founding of Virginia; and Roots of American Racism: Essays on the Colonial Experience. With Virginia Mason Vaughan he wrote Shakespeare's Caliban: A Cultural History and edited the new Arden Shakespeare edition of The Tempest.