(Yale University Press, 2019). It has also involved editorial work, including William Percy’s Mahomet and His Heaven: A Critical Edition (Ashgate, 2006), editorial contributions to the Norton Shakespeare 3, and current editorial research for the Oxford Hakluyt and Oxford Nashe projects.
Mary Fuller is Professor of Literature and MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT, where she has served as department head and Associate Chair of the Institute faculty. Her research focuses on early modern English geography and exploration and the related histories of practices, narratives, and material texts as these extend across space and time. She is currently working on a book about Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations of the English Nation (1600) and editing materials on the Northwest Passage for the projected Oxford edition of Hakluyt’s compilation. Her publications include Voyages in Print: English Travel to America 1576–1624 (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and Remembering the Early Modern Voyage (Palgrave, 2008) as well as numerous articles and book chapters.
Dr. Masoud “Kasra” Ghorbaninejad earned his PhD in English at Northeastern University, Boston, MA (2018) and, after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Victoria (UVic), Victoria, BC, has worked at UCLA and now at University of Victoria as a digital humanist. He has published on comparative literature, drama and theater, and digital humanities; coauthored with Nathan Gibson and David Joseph Wrisley, “⅃TЯ” in Debates in the Digital Humanities 2012 (University of Minnesota Press, 2012); coauthored with Behzad Ghaderi Sohi, “Ali Nassirian and a Modern Iranian ‘National’ Theatre,” Asian Theatre Journal 29.2 (2012): 495–527; coauthored with Behzad Ghaderi Sohi, “Modernity and ‘Monstros/city’ in Othello and Nassirian’s Halu,” Persian Literary Studies Journal 1.1 (2012): 7–40; and coauthored with Behzad Ghaderi Sohi, “Peer Gynt and the Cult of Mithras,” North-West Passage 5 (2008): 151–159.
Jos J. L. Gommans is Professor of Colonial and Global History at Leiden University. He is the author of two monographs on early-modern south and central Asian history: The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, 1710–1780, (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and High Roads to Empire (Routledge, 2002). An omnibus of his work came out recently as The Indian Frontier: Horse and Warband in the Making of Empires (Routledge, 2018). He also wrote extensively on Dutch colonial history, coedited Exploring the Dutch Empire (Bloomsbury, 2005), and coauthored the monograph The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2020). In addition, he produced various Dutch source publications, including one archival inventory and two historical VOC atlases. He contributed to major works of reference like the Encyclopaedia of Islam and the Cambridge World History. In recent years his work focused on the Indo-Dutch artistic encounter and wrote The Unseen World: The Netherlands and India from 1550 (Vantilt, 2018) for the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum and acted as guest curator of the 2019 exhibition “India and the Netherlands in the Age of Rembrandt” at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Marahaj Vastu Sangrahalaya at Mumbai.
Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and visiting professor at the University of Granada. He is the author of a number of books on early modern literature and culture, most recently, Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Edmund Spenser: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Lying in Early Modern English Culture (Oxford University Press, 2017). John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion will appear in 2021, as will his edition of James Shirley’s The Politician (edited with Duncan Fraser). He is currently completing a study of literature and class from the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution and is coediting the works of Thomas Nashe (with Joe Black, Jennifer Richards, and Cathy Shrank), and a revised version of the anthology, Amazons, Savages and Machiavels (with Matthew Dimmock). He is a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement and The Irish Times and was chair of the Society for Renaissance Studies (2016–2019).
Chloë Houston is Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading. She is the author of a study of early modern utopian literature, The Renaissance Utopia: Dialogue, Travel and the Ideal Society (Ashgate, 2013). She has also edited a collection of essays on representations of utopias and new worlds from 1500 to 1800, New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period (Ashgate, 2010). Her current research interests focus on the dramatization of Persia and the Persian Empire on the early modern English stage.
Jean E. Howard is George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where she teaches early modern literature, Shakespeare, feminist studies, and theater history. Besides editing six collections of essays, Howard is author of over fifty articles and several books, including Shakespeare’s Art of Orchestration: Stage Technique and Audience Response (University of Illinois Press, 1984); The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (Routledge, 1994); Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories (Routledge, 1997), co-written with Phyllis Rackin; Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598–1642 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007); and Marx and Shakespeare, cowritten with Crystal Bartolovich (Continuum, 2012). She is also a coeditor of The Norton Shakespeare (now in its third edition) and general editor of the Bedford contextual editions of Shakespeare. Her new book, Staging History: Forging the Body Politic, on the history play in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American and English theater, is nearing completion.
Ann Rosalind Jones is Esther Cloudman Dunn Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at Smith College, where she taught with colleagues in national language and literature departments, art history and film studies. Her early research, The Currency of Eros (University of Indiana Press, 1990), focused on the social situations and intertextual poetics of sixteenth-century women writing lyrics and polemics in Western Europe. That work, especially its debates about women’s orderly and disorderly use of clothing, led her to explore material culture, specifically the political and cultural meanings of dress. With Peter Stallybrass, she wrote Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000); with Margaret Rosenthal, she translated Cesare Vecellio’s Habiti antichi e moderni di diverse parti del Mondo (Clothing, Ancient and Modern, of Various Parts of the World). She has published on imperial and colonial histories related to her current project, a study of Vecellio’s genre: the illustrated costume book, widely published in the printing centers of Europe from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, which represented the clothing worn by people of diverse ranks and regions as the embodiment of moral and political ideologies central to their cultures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Gerald MacLean is Emeritus Professor of the University of Exeter, UK (2007–2014). A literary and cultural historian, since 2000 MacLean has published widely on relations between early-modern Britain and the Islamic world, especially the Ottoman Empire. He is author, most recently, of Abdullah Gül and The Making of the New Turkey (Oneworld, 2014), Looking East: English Writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800 (Palgrave 2007; Turkish trans. 2009), and The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580–1720 (Palgrave, 2004; Turkish trans. 2006, 2017). With Nabil Matar he is coauthor of Britain and the Islamic World, 1558–1713 (Oxford University Press, 2011), and with Donna Landry he coauthored Materialist Feminisms (Blackwell, 1993). Among other books, critical editions, and multiauthor volumes, MacLean is most recently editor of Britain and the Muslim World: Historical Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars, 2012), Writing Turkey: Explorations in Turkish History, Politics and Cultural Identity (Middlesex University Press, 2006), and Re-orienting the Renaissance (Palgrave, 2005). With Ercihan Dilari, Caroline Finkel, and Donna Landry, he is a founding member of the Evliya Çelebi Way Project, which established a UNESCO-approved equestrian cultural route in Western Anatolia. He is currently writing about Britain and the Kurds.
Stuart M. McManus is a historian and classicist working on premodern culture from a global and multiethnic perspective. He received his PhD in history (secondary field in classical philology) from Harvard and is currently Assistant Professor of Premodern World History