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Brett Foster Brett Foster is an assistant professor of English at Wheaton College. He developed his interest in Renaissance literature while studying at Boston University and Stanford University respectively, and he later completed his doctorate in English at Yale University. His articles and reviews have appeared in Genre, Journal of British Studies, Modern Philology, Prose Studies, and Shakespeare Bulletin. He has presented papers at numerous conferences, including MLS (to the Marlowe Society), RSA, and SCSC. His essays on literature and religion are forthcoming in collections published by the University of Delaware Press and Ashgate. |
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David George David George is Professor of English at Urbana University in Ohio, received hi PhD from King’s College, University of London. Prior to his coming to Urbana, he taught at several universities including the University of Western Ontario, Fisk University, and the University of Minnesota. The recipient of various fellowships, grants and awards, including NEH, the Folger Shakespeare Library Junior Fellowship, the Andrew W. Mellon Fund Fellowship, Charles Hinman Fellowship, he is the author of Records of Early English Drama: Lancashire (Toronto UP), Shakespeare: Coriolanus: The Critical Tradition (Continuum), and editor of Shakespeare’s First Playhouse by Irwin Smith (Dublin, Liffey). George’s articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Modern Language Review, Theatre Notebook, Shakespeare Quarterly, Ben Jonson Journal, Shakespeare Survey, and Philologica LX. His Coriolanus Variorum is forthcoming. |
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Jack Heller Jack Heller is an assistant professor of English at Huntington University. His research interests are Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, dramatic literature, and African-American literature. His publications include "Penitent Brothellers: grace, sexuality, and genre" in Thomas Middleton's City Comedies, and online publications on worldviews and Arthur Miller. He has presented conference papers on Love's Labours Lost, Much Ado about Nothing, and Timon of Athens. He is considering a future book on grace in Shakespeare's plays. |
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Christopher Hodgkins Christopher Hodgkins is the Class of 1952 Dinstinguished Excellence Professor in English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and works in the literature of the Renaissance, particularly in Shakespeare, Milton, and Herbert--also frequently offering his course in Literary Study of the Bible. He is author of "Authority, Church and Society" in George Herbert: return to the middle way, Reforming Empire: Protestant colonialism and conscience in British literature, and is co-editor, with Daniel W. Doerksen, of Centered on the Word: literature, Scripture, and the Tudor-Stuart middle way. He is co-director of George Herbert's Living Legacies, a pair of linked conferences on Herbert's pastoral life in England and his print and cultural legacies worldwide. The second of these conferences will meet in Greensboro on October 10-11, 2008. Professor Hodgkins earned his BA in English at the University of the Pacific and his MA and PhD at the University of Chicago. |
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Keith Jones Keith Jones received his BA in English from Covenant College and his MA in English Literature and PhD in Renaissance English Literature from Saint Louis University. He served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department of Wheaton College for five years, and is currently in his fourth year as an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Literature at Northwestern COllege in St. Paul, Minnesota. An article entitled "'The Observed of all Observers': Is there an Ophelia in this Text" is forthcoming in The Upstart Crow. |
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Jesse Lander Jesse Lander (B.A., Oxford; M.Phil., M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University) is Associate Professor of English at Notre Dame. His special interests are Shakespeare, Tudor-Stuart drama, and Renaissance Literature. He is also active in academic societies. Lander’s most recently published book is Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England, CUP, 2006. He is currently working on a book provisionally entitled “They say that miracles are past”: Staging the Supernatural in Shakespeare’s England.” |
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Leland Ryken Leland Ryken is the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English, where he has taught for forty years. He has published over thirty books (including edited and co-authored books). He is best known for his scholarship on the Bible as literature. Professor Ryken's books published in the past year include a literary study Bible and a reader's guide to Prince Caspian. He has published essays on three Shakespearian plays--The Tempest, Macbeth, and The Winter's Tale. |
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Grace Tiffany Grace Tiffany has been a professor
of Shakespeare at Western Michigan University since 1995, and has spoken as
an invited lecturer at a number of colleges and universities, including the
University of Salamanca in Spain. Before moving to Michigan she taught for
five years at the University of New Orleans and for one year at Fordham University
in New York City. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Notre Dame. Tiffany’s
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Lina Wilder Lina Wilder is an assistant professor of English at Connecticut College. Her undergraduate degrees are from the Eastman School of Music (voice) and the University of Rochester (English). She received her PhD from Yale University where she wrote her thesis entitled "Shakespeare's Memory theater," under the guidance of Lawrence Manley. In addition to revising her dissertation for publication, she is currently exploring the idea of character in early modern drama and has begun a project on the seventeenth-century mad songs. She is also active in academic conferences. |
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