Shakespeare and Donne

Contributors

Judith H. Anderson

Judith H. Anderson is Chancellor’s Professor of English at Indiana University and author of The Growth of a Personal Voice: Piers Plowman and The Faerie Queene (1976),Biographical Truth: The Representation of Historical Persons in Tudor-Stuart Writing(1984), Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English (1996), Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural Change in Tudor-Stuart England (2005), and Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton (2008), which was awarded the MacCaffrey Award of the International Spenser Society; she is also coeditor of Will’s Vision of Piers Plowman (1990), Spenser’s Life and the Subject of Biography (1996), Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction: First-Year English, Humanities Core Courses,Seminars (2007), and Go Figure: Energies,Forms, and Institutions in the Early Modern World (2011). Her current book project is titled Issues of Analogy, Light, and Death.

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Dr. Matthias Bauer

Matthias Bauer is professor of English literature at the University of Tübingen,Germany. He has published numerous articles on early modern writers, including Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan. His book on Mystical Linguistics: GeorgeHerbert, Richard Crashaw, and Henry Vaughan is forthcoming. He has also edited, with Angelika Zirker, Drama and Cultural Change: Turning around Shakespeare (2009), and he is cofounder and editor of Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate.

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Mary Blackstone

Mary Blackstone is professor emerita of theatre and director of the Centre for the Study of Script Development at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, and former dean of fine arts, chair of the Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans, and member of the board of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans. Both an early modern cultural historian and a professional dramaturge engaged in thedevelopment of new dramatic scripts for stage and screen, she has published numerous articles and chapters on Shakespeare and on topics such as religion, patronage, and women’s writing. She is currently writing a book titled The Performance of Commonwealth in Early Modern England, which treats the role of various kinds of traveling performers in developing a concept of “commonwealth.”

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Marshall Grossman

The late Marshall Grossman was professor of English at the University of Maryland,College Park. He was the author of three books, Authors to Themselves: Miltonand the Revelation of History (1987), The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in Renaissance English Narrative Poetry (1998), and the Blackwell Seventeenth- Century Literature Handbook. He also edited Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre, and the Canon (1998) and Reading Re nais sance Ethics (2007). He was working on Milton and the development of rational religion.

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Julian Lamb

Julian Lamb completed his BA at the Australian National University and his PhD at Cambridge University; he currently teaches at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published on Puttenham’s Arte of English Poesie, early modern English dictionaries, and Wittgenstein, and he has recently co-edited Art and Authenticity (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2010).

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Catherine Gimelli Martin

Catherine Gimelli Martin is professor of English at the University of Memphis.She is the author of The Ruins of Allegory: Paradise Lost and the Metamorphosis of Epic Convention (1998), which received the James Holly Hanford prize of the MiltonSociety of America; Milton and Gender (2004); and Milton among the Puritans: TheCase for Historical Revisionism (2010). She is also coeditor of Francis Bacon and theRefiguring of Modern Thought (2005). Her essay “The Erotology of Donne’s ‘Extasie’” was awarded the essay prize of the John Donne Society in 2006.

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David Lee Miller

David Lee Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor of English and ComparativeLiterature at the University of South Carolina, where he directs the Center for Digital Humanities. He is the author of two books, The Poem’s Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queene (1988) and Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father’s Witness (2003) and has coedited four collections, including A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger Jr. and the Arts of Interpretation (2009), with Nina Levine. His current project, with four other general editors, is a new Collected Works of Edmund Spenser in preparation for Oxford University Press.

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Jennifer Pacenza

Jennifer Pacenza is currently completing a PhD at Indiana University, where she is focusing on Renaissance drama and performance, with a minor in science and literature. She has a MA in literature and a MS in library sciences from the University of North Texas. Her dissertation proposes the concept of dramatic experimentation, based on the performative nature of scientific experimentation and knowledge production, to explore how Renaissance theatrical works are themselves experiments in theater historiography.

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Jeanne Shami

Jeanne Shami is professor of English at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan. She is the author of John Donne’s 1622 Gunpowder Plot Sermon: A Parallel- Text Edition (1996) and John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit (2003), which won the John Donne Society Award for Distinguished Publication. She has also edited Renaissance Tropologies: The Cultural Imagination of Early Modern England (2008) and, with Dennis Flynn and M. Thomas Hester, has coedited the Oxford Handbook of John Donne (2011). She is currently editing Donne’s verse letters for the Donne Variorum and is working on the Oxford edition of Donne’s letters and on a project treating women and sermons from 1517 to 1688.

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Anita Gilman Sherman

Anita Gilman Sherman is associate professor of literature at American University and author of Skepticism and Memory in Shakespeare and Donne (2007). She has published essays on Donne, Garcilaso de la Vega, Herbert of Cherbury, Thomas Heywood, Michel de Montaigne, W. G. Sebald, and Shakespeare in a variety of journals and edited collections. Her current book project, The Skeptical Imagination in Early Modern En gland, extends her work on skepticism in literature to authorsranging from Spenser to Marvell.

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Douglas Trevor

Douglas Trevor is associate professor of English at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England (2004) and the coeditor of Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture (2000). He has publishedarticles on early modern writers ranging from Thomas More to John Milton, and he is currently completing a monograph on charity in medieval and early modern England.

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Jennifer C. Vaught

Jennifer C. Vaught is Jean- Jacques and Aurore Labbé Fournet / Board of Regents Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is the author of Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature (2008) and Carnival and Literature in Early Modern En gland (2012); she is also the coeditor of Grief and Gender: 700– 1700 (2003) and the editor of Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern En gland (2010).

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Dr. Angelika Zirker

Angelika Zirker teaches English literature at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She has published Der Pilger als Kind: Spiel, Sprache und Erlosung in Lewis Carrolls Alice-Buchern (2010) and has coedited Drama and Cultural Change: Turning around Shakespeare (2009). She is also an editor of Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate. Her current book project is titled Stages of the Soul in Early Modern Poetry, with attention to Shakespeare and Donne.

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