Michael Bath played a leading role in the international development of emblem studies in the last thirty years, acting as Chairman of the Society for Emblem Studies, author of books Speaking Pictures (1994), Renaissance Decorative Painting in Scotland (2003), Emblems for a Queen (2008) and of numerous edited collections and articles. He is co-editor of the journal Emblematica. He retired some years ago as Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Strathclyde, where he helped to set up the Scottish Institute for Northern Renaissance Studies, and is now Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the University of Glasgow, which will host the Ninth International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies next year.
Kate Chedgzoy is Head of the Literature Section of the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University. She has research interests in Renaissance drama, particularly Shakespeare; early modern women's writing; and children's literaure.
Peter Davidson is Professor of Renaissance Studies in the University of Aberdeen and Scholar-Keeper of the University's Collections. His publications include The Idea of North (Reaktion, 2005), The Universal Baroque (MUP, 2007) and a volume of verses The Palace of Oblivion (Carcanet, 2008).
Elizabeth Elliott teaches in the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh. She has published articles on medieval Scottish literature, and is currently completing a book on the reception of Boethius in the vernacular literature of the Middle Ages.
Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. He is the author of a number of works on early modern literature, including Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005, paperback, 2008); Literature, Travel and Colonialism in the English Renaissance, 1540-1625 (Oxford University Press, 1998, paperback, 2007); Spenser's Irish Experience: Wilde Fruyt and Salvage Soyl (Oxford, 1997); and Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance (Cambridge, 1994). He has also edited, with Matthew Dimmock, Religions of the Book: Co-existence and Conflict, 1400-1660 (Palgrave, 2008); with Raymond Gillespie, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. III: The Irish Book in English, 1550-1800 (Oxford, 2006); with Paul Hammond, Shakespeare and Renaissance Europe (Cengage, Arden Critical Companions, 2004); and Literature and Censorship in Renaissance England (Palgrave, 2001). He is editor of Renaissance Studies and is currently working on a biography of Edmund Spenser.
Donald Jellerson is Lecturer in English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he recently completed his PhD. His work focuses on the return of the dead in early modern poetry and drama. His teaching and research interests also include literary theory, gender studies, and film. His essay, “Hysteria and the Camera in Max Ophuls’ Letter from an Unknown Woman”, will be published in 2010 in Quarterly Review of Film and Video 27.5, and his essay, “Tears and Violence in Titus Andronicus”, is forthcoming in On the Verge of Tears, eds. Michele Byers and David Lavery (Cambridge Scholars Publishing).
R.W. Maslen is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. He has written books on early Elizabethan prose fiction and Shakespearean comedy, and co-edited Sidney’s Apology for Poetry and Dekker and Middleton’s News from Gravesend. As well as Renaissance literature, he has an interest in modern fantasy which tends to colour his perceptions of early modern poems, plays and prose.
Naomi McAreavey is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at University College, Dublin. She works on the literature of early modern Ireland, especially women’s writing, and has articles published and forthcoming in journals including English Literary Renaissance and Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Kathryn Murphy is Junior Research Fellow in English Literature at Jesus College, Oxford. She has published various articles on early modern literature, particularly on Thomas Browne, and edited 'A man very well studyed': New Contexts for Thomas Browne (Leiden: Brill, 2008), with Richard Todd. She is member of the editorial board of Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies, Brill, Leiden.
Jane O. Newman is Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, where she teaches Early Modern Comparative Studies, and is the Director of the interdisciplinary Program in European Studies. She is a founding member of the UC Irvine Group for the Study of Early Cultures. Newman’s publications include Pastoral Conventions (1990), The Intervention of Philology (2000), and essays on 16th and 17th century English and Central European literature and culture, the disciplinary history of Renaissance and Baroque Studies, and Feminist Studies. She has held Humboldt and Guggenheim Fellowships. She is currently completing a book entitled “Benjamin’s Library: Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque,” and continuing her work-in-progress: “Religion and the State: Early Modern Lessons for the Post-Westphalian Age.”
Lucy Razzall is a doctoral student in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, where she previously studied for BA and MPhil degrees in English. She works on the relationship between literature and material culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and her thesis explores ideas about literal and metaphorical containers and containment in early modern writing. She is a member of the recently established Centre for Material Texts, based at the Faculty of English, Cambridge.
Jeffrey Chipps Smith is Professor and the Kay Fortson Chair in European Art in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches and writes about the art in Northern Europe, especially Germany, from 1400 to 1700. For a listing of Smith's publications and professional activities, see here.
Jane Stevenson is Regius Profesor of Humanity in the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of Women Latin Poets (Clarendon, 2005) and is also a novelist and biographer. Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye appeared in 2007.
Adrian Streete is Lecturer in English at Queen’s University, Belfast. His book Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (2009). He is also co-author of Re-Figuring Mimesis: Representation in Early Modern Literature (2005) and has published articles in journals such as The Review of English Studies, Textual Practice and Literature and History.
Rebecca Warren-Heys is a doctoral researcher in the second year of her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, supervised by Dr Ewan Fernie. Her thesis aims to explore the memorial arts of Shakespeare's second tetralogy, particularly the way Shakespeare creates his own art of memory using mnemonic technologies of rhyme, rhythm, metre, and language. Rebecca is also the webmaster for the AHRC/ESRC funded project, ‘The Faerie Queene Now’.
Marion Wynne-Davies holds the Chair of English Literature in the Department of English at the University of Surrey. Her main areas of interest are Early Modern literature and women’s writing. She has published two editions of primary material, Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents (with S.P.Cerasano) and Women Poets of the Renaissance, as well as several collections of essays in the same field. She has written four monographs, Women and Arthurian Literature, Sidney to Milton, Women Writers of the English Renaissance: Familial Discourse and Margaret Atwood.
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