Christina Wald teaches English literature at the university of Augsburg. She is the author of Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia: Performative Maladies in Contemporary Anglophone Drama (Palgrave 2007) and co-editor of several books, most recently The Literature of Melancholia: Early Modern to Postmodern (Palgrave 2011). She has just finished a manuscript on spectres of transubstantiation in early modern English prose fiction, which looks at the impact of the Eucharist debate on notions of identity transformation, and currently works on the edition of a special issue of Routledge’s Shakespeare journal on “Medieval Shakespeare.”