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Dr. Natalie Aldred is an independent scholar. She specializes in the editing and bibliographical studies of early modern English vernacular texts, as well as book history, early book advertisements, sixteenth-century theatre history, digital humanities, and professional playwrights, notably William Haughton. Her articles, notes, and conference papers explore bibliography, editing, genre, biography, and printers. She is currently editing Haughton’s Englishmen for my Money (for Digital Renaissance Editions), and co-producing, with Joshua McEvilla, an online catalogue of pre-1668 book advertisements in English periodicals (for The Bibliographical Society). She is assistant editor of The Literary Encyclopedia and contributes to the Lost Plays Database.

Dr. Ronda Arab (PhD Columbia) is an assistant professor of English at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include intersections of class, gender, and work on the early modern English stage; non-elite culture and its challenges to patriarchy; the role of literature and theatre in the construction of cultural discourse and social practice; and the city of London. She is the author of Manly Mechanicals on the Early Modern English Stage (Susquehanna UP, 2011), an examination of working men in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and has a recent article in Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama (Ashgate, 2011). She has also published in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Renaissance Quarterly.

Dr. Glenn Clark (PhD Chicago) is an associate professor in the department of English, film, and theatre at the University of Manitoba. His research interests currently include the relationship between English drama and the post-Reformation pastoral ministry, and the significance of commercialized hospitality in Tudor–Stuart culture. He is the author of articles on Shakespeare and other aspects of early-modern English drama in journals and book collections including English Literary Renaissance, Renaissance and Reformation, Religion and Literature, Shakespeare and Religious Change (Palgrave, 2009), and Playing The Globe: Genre and Geography in English Renaissance Drama (Fairleigh Dickinson/Associated UP, 1998). He is co-editor of the volume City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City (McGill–Queen’s, 2010).

Dr. Robert Clark, MoEML consultant, 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 software designer of The Literary Encyclopedia , which has been published since 2000 and now comprises over 12 million words in a data structure of over 40 thousand records. He has also recently developed a test-bed site for cultural topography at 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 rereading of Jane Austen in relationship to the rise of the free-market, Jane Austen: Transformations of Capital, will be published by Routledge in 2013.

After contributing to MoEML in English 328, Drama of the English Renaissance, in 2003, Laura went on to earn her MA in English from the University of Toronto and her PhD in English literature and culture before 1700 from Wayne State University, Detroit. Her dissertation was entitled The Circulation and Recontextualization of Dramatic Excerpts in Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts. In 2010, she was appointed visiting assistant professor of English at the Université de Moncton, Campus Edmundston. She is currently the Banting postdoctoral fellow at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) at the University of Victoria. Laura has two articles forthcoming in 2011: "Richard II and the book of life," will appear in Studies in English Literature, and the second, Proverbial Shakespeare: The Print and Manuscript Circulation of Extracts from Love’s Labour’s Lost, will appear in the journal Shakespeare. Laura’s book chapter, Shakespearean Texts in Manuscript, co-written with Arthur F. Marotti, will be published in The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare, edited by Arthur F. Kinney, also in 2011. Laura has presented at many national and international conferences, including the Modern Language Association, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Laura’s research has been funded in part by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship and a Renaissance Society of America research grant.

Dr. Tracey Hill is head of the department of English and cultural studies at Bath Spa University. Her specialism is in the literature and history of early modern London. She is the author of two books: Anthony Munday and Civic Culture (Manchester UP, 2004), and Pageantry and Power: A Cultural History of the Early Modern Lord Mayor’s Shows, 1585–1639 (Manchester UP, 2010). She has also published a number of articles on Munday’s prose works, on The Booke of Sir Thomas More, and on late Elizabethan history plays.

Dr. Brett D. Hirsch is university postdoctoral research fellow in medieval and early modern studies at the University of Western Australia. He is coordinating editor of Digital Renaissance Editions, co-editor of the Routledge journal Shakespeare, and vice president of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA). His research interests include early modern English drama, literary and cultural history, digital humanities, and critical editing, and he has published articles in these areas in The Ben Jonson Journal, Early Modern Literary Studies, Early Theatre, Literature Compass, and Parergon. He is currently working on an electronic critical edition of Fair Em and a monograph study of animal narratives in Shakespeare’s England.

Dr. Mary Ann Lund is lecturer in Renaissance literature at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading The Anatomy of Melancholy (Cambridge UP, 2010), and several articles on seventeenth-century prose writing and religious literature. She is currently editing volume 12 of The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne; her volume is of Donne’s sermons preached at St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1626. She also has a research interest in the history of medicine and early modern literature. She teaches a special subject at Leicester on early modern London.

Dr. James Mardock teaches Renaissance literature at the University of Nevada. He has published articles on John Taylor, the water-poet, on Ben Jonson’s use of transvestism, and on Shakespeare and Dickens. His recent book, Our Scene is London (Routledge 2008), examines Jonson’s representation of urban space as an element in his strategy of self-definition. His chapter in Representing the Plague in Early Modern England (ed. Totaro and Gilman, Routledge 2010) explores King James’s accession and Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure as parallel cultural performances shaped by London’s 1603 plague. Mardock is at work on an edition of quarto and folio Henry V for Internet Shakespeare Editions, for which he serves as assistant general editor, and a study of Calvinism and metatheatre in early-modern drama. He has also served as the dramaturge for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.

Dr. Kevin A. Quarmby is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Freeman of the City of London, and a Liveryman in the Worshipful Company of Poulters. Prior to his academic career, he was a professional actor who appeared in numerous London West End productions, as well as at the Royal National Theatre and Old Vic. Quarmby teaches early modern literature and drama in the virtual and London-based programs of many institutions, including Shakespeare’s Globe. His publications have appeared in Shakespeare, Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama, Cahiers Elisabethain, Shakespeare Survey, and other scholarly venues. His first monograph, The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, is forthcoming from Ashgate (2012). An established journalist and theatre reviewer, Quarmby writes for the online magazines CurtainUp in the USA and British Theatre Guide in the UK. His reviews for Rogues and Vagabonds are now part of the British Library’s permanent Digital Theatre Archive.