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Citation: Contributors (2023) 
Titolo. Jems. 12: pp. 269-271. 
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/
JEMS-2279-7149-14394

JEMS - Journal of

Early Modern Studies

Journal of Early Modern Studies 12: 269-271, 2023 
ISSN 2279-7149 (online) | DOI: 10.36253/JEMS-2279-7149-14394

Contributors

Étienne Bourdon is an Associate Professor (Maître de conférence) 
in Early Modern History at the University of Grenoble Alpes 
(France), and a member of the Laboratoire de Recherche 
historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA). His main research topics 
are the history of knowledge from the !fteenth century to the 
beginning of the twentieth century, the study of François de 
Belleforest’s Cosmographie (1575), the relationship between 
mountains and religion, the national and political uses of history 
(La forge gauloise de la nation. Ernest Lavisse et la fabrique des 
ancêtres, 2017) and the epistemology of history, in particular 
the questions of Time and Truth. In 2013 he has been awarded 
the Georges Goyau Prize by the French Academy for his essay 
Le voyage et la découverte des Alpes. Histoire de la construction 
d’un savoir, 1492-1713 (2011). He has two books forthcoming: 
Combattre par la plume. François de Belleforest et les guerres de 
Religion and Croire et savoir. L’invention du monde à la Renaissance. 

Sophie Chiari is Professor of Early Modern English Literature 
at Université Clermont Auvergne, France, where she is also the 
Director of the ‘Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Clermont-
Ferrand’, a research institute encompassing the humanities and 
social sciences. She has edited or coedited various collections of 
essays including Performances at Court in the Age of Shakespeare 
(coedited with John Mucciolo, 2019) and !e Experience of 
Disaster in Early Modern English Literature (2022). Her current 
research focuses on ecocritical issues in Shakespeare and his 
contemporaries. Her most recent works are Shakespeare’s 
Representation of Weather, Climate, and Environment (2019) and 
Shakespeare and the Environment. A Dictionary (2022). 

Janet Clare is Honorary Professor in English at the University of 
Bristol and Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, 
School of Advanced Studies, University of London. In 2016 she 
was Visiting Professor at the Università degli Studi di Firenze. Her 
books include Art Made Tongue-Tied by Authority: Elizabethan and 
Jacobean Dramatic Censorship (second edition, 1999); Drama of the 
English Republic, 1649-1660 (2002) and Shakespeare’s Stage Tra"c: 
Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance !eatre (2014, 
2017). She has edited What You Will for the Oxford Complete Works 
of John Marston. Her current research concerns cosmography and 
the early modern English literary imagination for which she has 
been awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship. 



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Tom Conley is the Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor at Harvard University where he teaches 
in the Department of Art, Film & Visual Studies. He is the author of studies on literature and 
cartography: !e Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France (1996, 2011), 
Cartographic Cinema (2007), An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France 
(2011), À #eur de page: Voir et lire le texte de la Renaissance (2016). He is currently !nishing 
Des mots à la carte, a monograph on early modern poetry and space. He was the recipient of 
an honorary doctorate from the University Clermont-Auvergne in 2011.

Isabelle Fernandes is Lecturer in British History and Civilization (sixteenth and seventeenth 
centuries) in the Department of English Studies at Université Clermont Auvergne, France. She 
specialises in John Foxe and protestant martyrs. She has published Le sang et l’encre. John Foxe et 
l’écriture du martyre protestant anglais (2013), ‘Un chien vivant vaut-il mieux qu’un lion mort? 
John White et le sermon prononcé aux obsèques de Marie 1re’, Prêcher la mort à l’époque moderne 
(2020), ‘ “"e deformed imp of the devil”: John Foxe and the Protestant fashioning of the 
Catholic enemy’, Angles (2020), and Publish and Perish: !e Practice of Censorship in the British 
Isles in the Early Modern Period (2020). ‘Ressuscité des morts. Vivre et mourir pour sa foi dans 
!e Actes and Monumentes (1563) de John Foxe ou la question de la conversion’ is forthcoming. 

Jane Grogan is a Professor in English Literature at University College Dublin. She is the author 
of two monographs, Exemplary Spenser (2009) and !e Persian Empire in English Renaissance 
Writing, 1549-1622 (2014), editor of two collections of essays, Celebrating Mutabilitie (2010) 
and Beyond Greece and Rome: Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe (2020) and 
editor of a scholarly edition of the !rst English translation of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia (2020), 
for the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations series, as well as various chapters and journal 
articles on Spenser, Shakespeare, Xenophon and Persia. She is currently working on a book 
about the massacre at Smerwick (1580), in its global contexts.

Stephanie Inverso is a Lecturer in the Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department 
at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She was awarded her Ph.D. in French at Boston 
University in 2020. She has published on the Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius, the 
French scienti!c poet Guillaume du Bartas, and François Rabelais. She specializes in early 
modern cartography. Her current monograph, tentatively titled Heretical Hearts: Cordiform Maps 
and the Early Modern Imagination, is under contract with Brill Press. Her research focuses on 
metaphors of body and world in early modern French literature. She is particularly interested 
in cordiform, or heart-shaped, maps of the world in the sixteenth century. She has published 
in the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, French Studies Bulletin, and the volume Early 
Modern Écologies, as well as in the Boston Globe. 

François Laroque is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Early Modern Drama at 
Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Festive World 
(1991), and Court, Crowd and Playhouse (1993). He has also co-edited a two-volume anthology 
of Elizabethan !eatre (2009) and published translations of plays by Marlowe and Shakespeare. 
His last book is a Dictionnaire amoureux de Shakespeare (2016). Now, his main activities are 
lecturing and translating novels including those of Jane Austen and Louise May Alcott (for 
Livre de Poche and éditions RBA).



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Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is author of 
A Spenser Chronology (1994), Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity (1997), and 
Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare to Milton (2003). Ed-
ited collections include Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Con#ict, 1534-1660 
(1993), British Identities and English Renaissance Literature (2002), Shakespeare and Scotland 
(2004), Shakespeare and Wales: From the Marches to the Assembly (2010), !is England, !at 
Shakespeare: New Angles on Englishness and the Bard (2010), and Celtic Shakespeare: !e Bard 
and the Borderers (2014). He is completing a monograph entitled Mapping Milton: Colonialism 
and Cartography in the Seventeenth Century.

Anthony Payne read history at Cambridge and obtained his PhD from the National University of 
Ireland, Galway, under the supervision of Professor Daniel Carey. His is currently an Honorary 
Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. His specialist research interest is the history of 
the early modern book, especially the literature of voyages and travels. He has published several 
articles on Richard Hakluyt and his major study Richard Hakluyt: A Bibliography 1580-88 is 
planned for publication by the Hakluyt Society in late 2023. 

Omar Rodríguez Camarena is Professor in Science, Technology and Society at the National 
Autonomous University of Mexico. His research focuses on the history and development of 
European thought in the Ibero-American multicultural world, with particular emphasis on 
Renaissance humanism and its cosmological and cosmographical conceptions. More recently, 
he has been interested in studies on the anthropocene, speci!cally in the changes in the Valley 
of Mexico in the last centuries. He is involved with several interdisciplinary research groups: 
‘Critique of Epistemocracy, Cognitive Pluralism, Epistemic Equity and Democracy’, ‘Images of 
the American Skies’, and ‘"e Water City. "e Political Epistemology of Hydrogeological Praxis’.

Antonio Sánchez Martínez is Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the 
Autonomous University of Madrid with an interest in early modern Iberian science, especially in the 
production of artisanal knowledge, cosmography and maritime culture. He leads a research project 
dedicated to early modern maritime culture in Iberia and is a member of several international 
research teams, including the Rutter Project ‘Making the Earth Global’ at the University of Lisbon  
and the ‘Mapping and the Making of Empire’ project at the University of Groningen. 

Margaret Small was a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham 
where she specialized in history of geography, history of exploration and colonisation, and 
the classical tradition. She trained initially as a classicist at the University of Alberta and the 
University of Victoria before becoming a sixteenth-century specialist. She wrote extensively on 
geography in the Early Modern period, and in 2020 published her monograph entitled Framing 
the World: Classical In#uences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical !ought.

Sandra Young is Professor of English Literary Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her 
scholarship pursues questions of social justice in works imaginative and historical. She authored 
Shakespeare in the Global South: Stories of Oceans Crossed in Contemporary Adaptation (2019) and 
!e Early Modern Global South in Print: Textual Form and the Production of Human Di$erence 
as Knowledge (2015), which traces the emergence of a racialised ‘South’ in early modernity. She 
has published on contemporary cultures of memory in the aftermath of injustice across a range 
of genres, including testimony, life narrative, visual art, museum practice, and organised protest.