Contributors
Beatrice Bradley is Assistant Professor of English and Faculty Affiliate in Women’s and Gender Studies at Muhlenberg College. Her research and teaching bring together early modern literature, critical theory, and histories of medicine to rethink the materiality and psychology of embodiment. She is currently working on her first book project, tentatively titled The Erotics of Sweat: Residues of Embodiment in the Early Modern World. Recent essays have appeared or are forthcoming in English Literary Renaissance, Milton Studies, and Shakespeare Studies.
Erika Carbonara is a PhD candidate with a focus on early modern queerness at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She is currently working on her dissertation, tentatively titled, “‘It Is a Bawdy Planet’: Conceptualizing Early Modern Kink Identities and Practices,” in which she interrogates portrayals of communities as essential to kinky identities. In addition to early modern kink and queerness, her other scholarly interests include early modern ephemera, pre-modern sleep habits, and Nathan Field’s Amends for Ladies.
Gina Filo received her PhD from the University of Oregon in 2020 and is now an Assistant Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University. Her work explores the intersections of gender, sexuality, embodiment, selfhood, and poetics in early modern English literature.
Heather Frazier graduated with her Ph.D. in English Literature from The Ohio State University in 2021. Her dissertation, “The Erotics of Excrement in Early Modern English Drama,” addresses how early modern English plays pair sexual and excremental language to upend and reinforce traditional power structures. She has also published the peer-reviewed article, “‘Hath not thy rose a canker?’: Monstrous Generation and Comic Subversion in King Henry VI, Part 1.”
Joseph Gamble is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toledo and the author of Sex Lives: Intimate Infrastructures in Early Modernity (University of Pennsylvania Press 2023).
Erin E. Kelly is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. She has served as associate editor of the journal Early Theatre since 2011. Recent projects include chapters, articles, and introductions on Wilson’s Three Ladies of London, Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy, and the history of scholarly peer review as well as on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew.
Gillian Knoll is Associate Professor of English at Western Kentucky University and author of Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare: Metaphor, Cognition, and Eros (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).
Nathaniel C. Leonard, currently serves as an Associate Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. His research primarily focuses on the complex relationship between metatheatricality, the restaging of culture, and dramatic genre in early modern English drama. Leonard’s work has also been published in The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Studies in English Literature, and Shakespeare Bulletin.
James Mulder is Lecturer of English and Media Studies and Co-Coordinator of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Bentley University in Waltham, MA. His research focuses on trans and gender studies as well as early modern poetry and drama. His work has appeared in SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 and The Journal of Popular Culture.
Kirk Quinsland is an Advanced Lecturer in English at Fordham University. His writing focuses on queer theory and drama, and he is ostensibly working on a book to be titled Negative Space: Homophobia and the Early Modern Stage.
Christine Varnado is an associate professor of English and Global Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo-SUNY. She is the author of The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature (Minnesota, 2020), as well as essays on invisible sex, getting used and liking it, the weather in Macbeth, whiteness in The Merchant of Venice and the 1924 silent film The Thief of Bagdad, and the prefix post-. Her current book project is on Macbeth, abortion, and the queerness of reproduction, birth, and death.
