Map of Early Modern London

Robert Clark. Dr. Robert Clark is Reader in English Literature at the University of East Anglia. He devised and developed ABES for Routledge (1996-2003) and is the founding Editor and the software designer of The Literary Encyclopedia (www.litencyc.com) which has been published since 2000 and now comprises over 12m words in a data structure of over 40,000 records. A particular feature of this publication is its deployment of an elaborate metadata tree of some 1400 terms which enables sophisticated advanced searching. He has also recently developed a test-bed site for cultural topography at www.mappingwriting.com which is exploring the use of Google maps for the representation of space in literary texts. His writings in literary history include History, Ideology and Myth in American Fiction; editions of novels by Defoe, Austen, and Fenimore Cooper; and essays on Dickens, Angela Carter, Michael Ondaatje, Henry Fielding, and The Spectator. He also edited The Arnold Anthology of British and Irish Literature in English. His major re-reading of Jane Austen in relationship to the rise of the free-market, Jane Austen: Transformations of Capital, will be published by Routledge in 2013.

Jeremy Smith. Assistant Librarian, Graphics and Digital Collections Team, London Metropolitan Archives.

Michael Best. Dr. Michael Best is Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria, and Coordinating Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions.

Ian Gregory. Dr. Ian Gregory is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, Department of History, Lancaster University.

Sally-Beth MacLean. Dr. Sally-Beth MacLean is Professor of English, University of Toronto.

Helen Ostovich. Dr. Helen Ostovich's expertise centres on Ben Jonson, on his stage practice, and his influence on fellow dramatists. She has published articles on Shakespeare and on Jonson, most recently dealing with issues of gender and Jonson's reputation for misogyny, on Jonson's interests in the new science, and on his connections with the Cavendish family. She has produced a modern critical edition of his four major comedies called Ben Jonson: Four Comedies (London: Longman, 1997) and an edition of his Every Man Out of His Humour for Revels Plays (Manchester UP, 2001). Her edition of Jonson's The Magnetic Lady is forthcoming in the Cambridge UP's complete works of Jonson. Ostovich has also co-edited with Elizabeth Sauer (Brock University) Reading Early Modern Women published by Routledge in 2004. She is currently editing Shakespeare's All's Well that Ends Well with co-editor Karen Bamford (Mount Allison University) and Andrew Griffin (University of California Santa Barbara) for the Internet Shakespeare Editions; and Heywood and Brome's The Late Lancashire Witches and A Jovial Crew for the new Richard Brome Electronic Edition. She was editor of the REED (Records of Early English Drama) Newsletter from 1994-97 and is now the editor of the peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and performance, Early Theatre: A Journal Associated with the Records of Early English Drama. She is one of the General Editors of the Revels Plays (with David Bevington, Alison Findlay, and Richard Dutton), the Series Editor of Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama for Ashgate Publishing, and with Professor Alexandra Johnston (REED, University of Toronto) was involved in the recovery of performance styles of an early modern acting company as part of a large project called "Shakespeare and the Queen's Men," which involved performances in Toronto and Hamilton, a conference, and publications (electronic and print) of playtexts and essays. The collection of essays, co-edited with Holger Schott Syme and Andrew Griffin, is called Locating the Queen's Men, 1583-1603: Material Practices and Conditions of Playing (Ashgate, 2009). She has also contributed to the making of the website Performing the Queen's Men.