ISSN 2279-7149 (online)
www.fupress.com/bsfm-jems
2015 Firenze University Press
Journal of Early Modern Studies, n. 4 (2015), pp. 399-401
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-15816
Contributors
Stefania Biscetti is assistant professor at the University of L’Aquila, where she
teaches English Language and Linguistics. Her research interests are mainly
in the fi eld of pragmatics and its interface with morphology, lexicon and text/
discourse, considered both synchronically and diachronically. More recently,
she has contributed to cognitive linguistic research with two publications
on the conceptualization of women in seventeenth-century English conduct
manuals. She is currently working on verbal aggressiveness.
Sonya L. Brockman received her PhD in English literature from the
University at Buff alo (SUNY) and currently teaches at the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research focuses on the intersection of
gender and violence in early English literature. She is currently working on
a monograph, Ravished Voices: Gender, Trauma, and Genre Transformation
in Early English Poetry, which reads medieval and early modern revisions of
classical rape narratives through contemporary trauma theory.
Emily Buff ey is a PhD student in English Literature at Th e University of
Birmingham. Her research is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Council and explores the revival of the medieval or ‘Chaucerian’-styled dream
vision in the period c.1540-1625. Her doctoral project aims at shedding new
light on the subjects of canonicity, genre, literary periodization and tradition.
William C. Carroll is professor of English at Boston University, where he regularly
teaches courses in Shakespeare and other topics in early modern drama. Among
his publications are Th e Great Feast of Language in Love’s Labour’s Lost (1976)
and Th e Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy (1985), and Fat King, Lean
Beggar: Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare (1996). He has also
published the following scholarly editions: Th omas Middleton, Women Beware
Women (1994); Shakespeare, Macbeth: Texts and Contexts (1999); Shakespeare,
Th e Two Gentlemen of Verona (2004); Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost (2009);
and Th omas Middleton: Four Plays (2012). He has co-chaired the Shakespearean
Studies Seminar at Harvard’s Center for the Humanities since 1992. In 2005-
2006 he served as President of the Shakespeare Association of America.
Jeanne Clegg studied English Literature at the Universities of Bristol, York
(Canada) and Oxford and has taught at the Universities of Calabria, Pisa and
L’Aquila; since 2010 she has been at the University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice.
She has published extensively and organized exhibitions on John Ruskin,
though her current research interests are in the history of culture in eighteenth-
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century England. She has written on the telling of the Glorious Revolution,
and on relations between actual judicial practice and its representation, fictional
and non-fictional; she is at present working on a book provisionally entitled
Catching Thieves: Defoe’s Stories of Law Enforcement.
Ben Crabstick is an independent researcher, particularly interested in the
intersections between literary practice and material culture in early modern
England. Having completed his D.Phil. at Oxford University on the uses of
allusion in Andrew Marvell’s poetry, he is currently undertaking individual
projects on a variety of early modern poetic manuscripts, as well as a wider
study of the role of the stationer in the development of English literary culture
in the two centuries between Caxton and Tonson.
Emily C. Gerstell holds a doctorate in English Literature from the University
of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation, Trafficking Women: Interest, Desire, and Early
Modern English Drama, examines the ways early modern women are variously
imagined not only to resist but also consciously to participate in, benefit from,
and perpetuate gendered, economic, and social hierarchies.
Sylvia Greenup is an independent scholar whose interests lie in the eighteenth
century and in material culture. She has published on the role of drama in
Clarissa and on the influence of The Rape of Lucrece in Richardson’s novel, as
well as on Jane Austen and Italian opera and textual representations of jewellery
in Mansfield Park. She has written about the Magdalen House in London in
relation to contemporary tragic theory and notions of motherhood and explored
the birth of celebrity culture in work on the actress Anne Bracegirdle, as well as in
a translation into Italian of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke (2012).
John Higgins is a lecturer of English at Case Western Reserve University. His
current research focuses on the intersections between early modern drama, print and
material culture, and the political lives of subordinate groups. He is working on a
book manuscript entitled ‘Authority from his majesty: Drama and popular politics
in early modern England’, which explores contradictions between monarchical
and local governance as embodied in social history and several Jacobean plays. His
recent publication, ‘Justice, Mercy and Dialectical Genres in Measure for Measure
and Promos and Cassandra’ (2012), is drawn from this study.
Liam J. Meyer received his PhD in English literature from Boston University
in 2014, where he has been teaching classes on drama, film, and early modern
literature. His dissertation, ‘To Rise and Not to Fall’: Representing Social Mobility
in Early Modern Comedy and Star Chamber Litigation, examines narratives
concerning ambitious individuals. It traces competing ideological pressures,
and competing forms of status, in texts about merit, advancement, and socially
disruptive aspirations in the early seventeenth century.
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Michelle Miller completed a Ph.D. in Romance Languages at the University of
Michigan in 2008, with a thesis focused on service friendship in sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century French literature. She was a lecturer in French and Great
Books from 2009-2012, and has published articles on Clément Marot, Mme
de La Fayette, Marguerite de Navarre, and Rabelais. She lives in Ann Arbor,
Michigan.
Marcy L. North is an associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State
University and the author of The Anonymous Renaissance: Cultures of Discretion
in Tudor-Stuart England (2003). She has published numerous articles on print
and manuscript culture, and she is currently finishing a book that explores
the intersection of labor and taste in the production of post-print literary
manuscripts.
Paola Pugliatti, Professor of English Literature now retired, has taught at the
Universities of Messina, Bologna, Pisa and Florence. She has written extensively
on Shakespeare and on early modern European culture and has also devoted
attention to the study of literary genres (drama and the novel) and to modernist
literature (Joyce’s Ulysses in particular). Her present interests are focussed on early
modern European popular culture, the Commedia dell’Arte and the theme of
authorship, with particular attention to issues of collaboration in early modern
English theatre. Her latest book-length studies are Beggary and Theatre in Early
Modern England (2003) and Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition (2010). She
is editor, with Donatella Pallotti, of Journal of Early Modern Studies.
Elizabeth Rivlin is an associate professor of English at Clemson University. She
is the author of The Aesthetics of Service in Early Modern England (2012) and
the editor, with Alexa Huang, of Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation
(2014). She has also published essays in English Literary History, English Literary
Renaissance, and in edited volumes. Currently she is writing a book on twenty-
first century American novelistic and cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare.
Raffaella Sarti works on the long-term and comparative history of domestic
service and care-work, Mediterranean slavery, marriage and celibacy, the
family and material culture, graffiti and wall writings, gender and the nation,
women’s and gender historiography. She is the author of more than hundred
publications (listed on <http://www.uniurb.it/sarti/>) in Italian, English,
French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian, and Bulgarian. Her
book Vita di casa. Abitare, mangiare e vestire nell’Europa moderna (1999; 2011)
was translated into several languages (Engl. transl. Europe at Home. Family and
Material Culture 1500-1800, 2002).