Contributors
James M. Bromley is Assistant Professor of English at Miami University. He is the author of Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Salvatore Di Maria received his early education in the Italian public schools, a BA in French from the University of North Carolina, and a PhD in Italian from the University of Wisconsin in 1978, and has been teaching at the University of Tennessee since 1985. He has written articles on a number of authors, including Dante, Machiavelli, and Cecchi. In 1984, he co-authored a book on Ariosto (University of Missouri Press) and in 2002, he published The Italian Tragedy (Bucknell University Press). He just completed The Poetics of Imitation in the Italian Theater of the Renaissance.
Michael Flachmann, a Professor of English at California State University, Bakersfield, has written fifteen books, including Beware the Cat: The First English Novel (Huntington Library Press, 1988), Shakespeare: From Page to Stage (Pearson, 2007), and Shakespeare in Performance: Inside the Creative Process (University of Utah Press, 2011), plus over fifty scholarly articles and reviews in such journals as Shakespeare Quarterly, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, and Studies in Philology.
Dr. (des.) Maik Goth is the author of the monograph From Chaucer's Pardoner to Shakespeare's Iago: Aspects of Intermediality in the History of the Vice (Peter Lang, 2009) and is at the moment revising his dissertation on the role of the monstrous in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene for publication. His main research interests are the poetry and drama of the early modern period, the Restoration, and the eighteenth century; he also has a strong interest in modern drama and fin de siècle literatures. Maik Goth teaches English and American literature at Ruhr-Universität, Bochum.
Sofie Kluge earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Copenhagen and is the Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Stockholm. She is author of Baroque Allegory Comedia: The Transfiguration of Tragedy in Seventeenth-Century [End Page 257] Spain (Reichenberger, 2010) and numerous articles on various aspects of Spanish Golden Age literature, including "A Hermaphrodite? Lope de Vega and the Controversy of Tragicomedy," published in Comparative Drama 41.3.
Joanna Mansbridge is currently an Assistant Professor in the English Department at St. Francis Xavier University. She has both published and forthcoming work on Paula Vogel and is currently at work on a project that examines engagements with history and the canon in contemporary American drama. Other research interests include gender studies, performance theory, and popular theater in the Americas, and she will have an essay published on burlesque in Canadian Theatre Review in 2014.
Melissa E. Sanchez is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Erotic Subjects: The Sexuality of Politics in Early Modern English Literature (Oxford University Press, 2011), along with a number of articles on gender, sexuality, and politics in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. She is currently writing a book on the relationship between feminism and queer theory in early modern studies.
W. R. Streitberger, Professor of English and faculty member of the Textual Studies Program at the University of Washington, has published a number of books, editions, and articles, mainly on court entertainments in England from the late fifteenth to mid-seventeenth century. He is currently finishing a book on Elizabeth I's Masters of the Revels.
Leila Watkins is a PhD candidate in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. Her research examines early modern conceptions of literature as consolation for emotional suffering, and she has published work on George Herbert and Thomas Traherne in Notes and Queries (2011). [End Page 258]
