Julie Crawford

Julie Crawford is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published on a wide range of early modern authors, from Shakespeare,  Fletcher, and Sidney to  Cavendish, Wroth and Clifford, and on topics ranging from the history of reading to the history of sexuality. She is the author of a book on cheap print and the English reformation, called *Marvelous Protestantism* (2005) and the recently  completed *Mediatrix: Women and the Politics of Literary Production in Early Modern England* which will appear in early 2013. She is currently completing a book entitled Margaret Cavendish’s Political Career.

Nancy Selleck

Nancy Selleck is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Theatre Arts Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.  She is the author of a book on the language of selfhood in the Renaissance entitled The Interpersonal Idiom in Shakespeare, Donne, and Early Modern Culture (published by Palgrave in 2008).  She has directed and co-directed productions of early modern plays at UMass Lowell and at Harvard, including As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Rover.  She has also directed modern and contemporary plays including Brecht’s Galileo and Stoppard’s Arcadia and has published on Stoppard as well.  She’s currently working on a book on early modern performance practices entitled Actor and Audience: Objects of Play on the Shakespearean Stage.

Eva Johanna Holmberg

Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg gained her PhD in Cultural History from the University of Turku in Finland. She has held research fellowships at the University of Turku, University of Helsinki and Birkbeck College, University of London. She now holds a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from the Academy of Finland and is a Fellow at The School of History, Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination: A Scattered Nation (Ashgate, 2012). Her most recent article “In the Company of Franks: British Identifications in the Ottoman Levant, c. 1600” will appear in the next issue of Studies in Travel Writing. Interested in early modern travel, cross-cultural encounters and travel writing, she is currently writing a new monograph (tentatively) entitled British Encounters in the Levant: Ethnic and Religious Identities, 1580-1700, and is a visiting scholar at the NYU Medieval and Renaissance Center until the end of November.

Ronda Arab

Ronda Arab is Associate Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her research interests are gender, class, and city identities, particularly as they intersect and are realized on the early modern London stage. She is the author of Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage (Susquehanna University Press, 2011), which examines the masculinity of working men, particularly artisans and tradesmen. Her most recent project looks at the unique identity of gentle born London apprentices and their place in the shifting class formations of early modern England.

Catharine Gray

Catharine Gray is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She is the author of Women Writers and Public Debate in Seventeenth-Century Britain (Palgrave, 2008). In addition to several articles on seventeenth-century women writers and politics in ELH and ELR, Gray’s recent essays are forthcoming in the edited collections, Gender Matters and Violent Masculinities. These essays are part of her new book project, “Unmaking Britain: Poetry, Politics, and War in the Seventeenth Century,” which analyzes the effects of the material realities and journalistic representations of civil war on poetic imaginings of state and nation. She is also currently co-editing a collection on John Milton, titled Milton Now.

Sarah Lewis

Sarah is a teaching fellow in the School of English, Drama and Film at University College Dublin. She completed her Phd thesis at King’s College London in 2011, and is working on her first book, Time and gender in Shakespeare and early modern theatre, which is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Her research focuses on the social construction of time and of gender and examines temporality as a category through which early modern gendered subjectivity is negotiated on the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century stage.

Lea Puljcan Juric

Lea Puljcan Juric received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University, where she also completed a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship. Her research interests include Renaissance drama, prose fiction, religious literature, travelogues, histories, ethnographies, cartography, material culture, and colonial and postcolonial studies. She received research fellowships from New York University, Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Newberry Library, and has published several articles on the Illyrians in Shakespeare’s plays; her latest essay, “Illyrians in Cymbeline,” is forthcoming in the fall 2012 issue of English Literary Renaissance. She is currently writing a monograph on the representations of Illyria in Renaissance England.

Joseph Bowling

Joseph Bowling is a PhD student in the English Department at the Graduate Center, CUNY and enrolled in the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program. In addition to studying early modern literature with a focus on religious and “popular” traditions, he is also currently interested in posthumanist, ecocritical, and ontological theories that assert an equality between the human and nonhuman. Joseph is also a top-up fellow at the Graduate Center’s Committee for the Study of Religion and co-chair of the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group. He teaches at Queens College.

Michael Shelichach

Michael Shelichach is a second-year PhD student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.  He is interested in Victorian and Modernist literature, post-structuralism, and affect theory.  He is also a graduate teaching fellow at Lehman College.

Amelia Worsley

Amelia Worsley is a sixth-year student at Princeton University, specializes in 17th- and 18th-century British literature. Her current project, “Loneliness: The Story of a State of Mind,” charts the arrival and development of this concept in English literature, 1599-1805. Other interests include Elizabethan drama, the history of aesthetics, and poetry of all periods.