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Biographical Notes
Diana E. Henderson
Diana E. Henderson is Professor of Literature and Dean for Curriculum and
Faculty Support at MIT. She is the author of Collaborations with the Past:
Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media and Passion Made Public:
Elizabethan Lyric, Gender, and Performance, and the editor of Alternative
Shakespeares: 3 and A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen. She has
published over 40 scholarly articles and book chapters, and has worked as a
dramaturg and theatrical consultant. She was the 2013-14 President of the
Shakespeare Association of America, is the co-editor of Shakespeare Studies,
and collaborates on MIT’s Global Shakespeares curriculum and archival project.
Maria Sequeira Mendes
Maria Sequeira Mendes finished her PhD at the Literary Theory Program
(University of Lisbon) in 2012, with a thesis called The Ordeals of Interpretation.
She is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Cinema and Theatre of
the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute. She is also a researcher in the Catholic
University (CECC), where she coordinates a Shakespeare reading group, and a
corresponding member in the Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and
Literature (University of St Andrews). Research interests include literary theory,
studies in law and literature, Shakespeare and theatre studies.
Elena Brugioni
Elena Brugioni holds a Ph.D. in Lusophone African Literature and she is a
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of
Minho, CEHUM. She is currently developing a postdoctoral research project
entitled “Provincializing the Canon: questioning the great European narratives in
‘homoglot’ literatures” financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia FCT [SFRH/BPD/62885/2009], Human Potential Operating Programme and
European Social Fund.
Paula Mathenhauer Guerreiro
Paula Guerreiro is an actress and journalist. Since 2012, she has been a member
of the group “Os Geraldos” in Campinas (São Paulo - Brazil), working as an
actress and a press officer. As a Masters student in Scenic Arts at Unicamp
(Brazil), she is developing the project "Between Shakespeare's pen and
contemporary theater: classical drama’s new locations", which brought her to
Portugal, in order to research the staging of Macbeth by the Portuguese
Company “Chapitô”.
Francesca Rayner
Francesca Rayner is Assistant Professor at the Universidade do Minho where she
is the Director of the Theatre degree programme and teaches Theatre and
Performance at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her research centres on
the cultural politics of Shakespearean performance. Since the publication of her
doctoral thesis Caught in the Act: The Representation of Sexual Transgression in
three Portuguese Performances of Shakespeare in 2006, she has published widely
on Shakespearean performance in national and international journals and
publications.. She is currently working on a book on Shakespearean performance
in Portugal in the post-revolutionary period
Varsha Panjwani
Dr Varsha Panjwani held a lecturership at the department of Theatre, Film, and
Television at the University of York from 2009-13. She currently lectures on
Shakespeare, Drama, and Adaptation Studies at Fordham University (London)
and Boston University (London), and is an honorary research associate at the
University of York.
She has published widely in leading international journals such as Shakespeare
Survey and Theatre Notebook, and is authoring a book on early modern dramatic
collaboration.
The
monograph,
Writing and Performing Early Modern
Collaborative Drama, has already been recognised as an original and significant
project as it has won grants from the Society of Theatre Research and Folger
Shakespeare Library.
In addition to her individual research, she ran a collaborative project,
‘Renaissance Reincarnations’. The project won three awards for its high-profile
events that investigated the ways in which Renaissance lives have been re-
imagined on the page, stage, and screen in the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries. She is currently on the steering committee for the Shakespeare in
Bollywood Film Festival taking place in London in 2016 and has contributed
essays on Indian adaptations of Shakespeare to several edited collections.
Miguel Ramalhete Gomes
Miguel Ramalhete Gomes is a post-doctoral research fellow working on the
theme of Shakespeare and presentism. He is the author of Texts Waiting for
History: William Shakespeare Re-Imagined by Heiner Müller (Rodopi, 2014). He is
based at CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese
Studies), at the Universidade do Porto, in Portugal, and teaches at the Escola
Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico do Porto (ESE-IPP). At present he
is also translating Henry VI, Part 3 into Portuguese.
Rachel Holmes
Dr Rachel E. Holmes is an Early Career Researcher and Assistant to the Directors
of the Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and Literature (CMEMLL) at
the University of St Andrews. She works transnationally in law and literature,
and is interested in sexual contracts and related areas of friction between secular
and ecclesiastical jurisdictions in the early modern period. She is currently
working on a monograph proposal based on her thesis, Casos de Honra:
Honouring Clandestine Contracts and Italian Novelle in Early Modern English
and Spanish Drama.
Maria José Faedo
Dr. María José Álvarez-Faedo is Senior Lecturer in 16th-and-17th-century
English Literature at the Department of English, French and German Studies of
the University of Oviedo and she coordinates the PhD Program in Humanistic
Research She participated in Brian J. Corrigan's The Compendium of Renaissance
Drama Project (Folger Shakespeare Library, 2011. Online resource) and she is
the author of several articles on Shakespeare's drama, including "Revisions of
Volumnia's Motherhood" in Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses (2002), "The
Merry Wives of Windsor in Spain" in Shakespeare and Spain. A Publication of the
Shakespeare Yearbook (2002), "Orson Wells's Gothic Cinematographic Approach
to Shakespeare's Macbeth" in SEDERI XI. Revista de la Sociedad Española de
Estudios Renacentistas Ingleses (2002). She also works in the field of
comparative studies and she is a member of the research team that studies the
reception and interpretation of Don Quixote, funded by the Spanish Ministry for
Education and Science, i. e. "Tradujo Charles Jarvis el Quijote al inglés
directamente de la edición de Lord Carteret o se inspiró en la traducción de
Thomas Shelton?" or " Don Quijote viaja a la pérfida Albión: Humor y Sátira en
Don Quijote en Inglaterra de Henry Fielding" (2014).
Darlena Ciraulo
Darlena Ciraulo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Central
Missouri. Her research devoted to the ancient romance tradition in Shakespeare
has appeared in Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities in England (Palgrave
Macmillan). Her publications on Shakespeare and appropriation have appeared
in Philological Quarterly, Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare
and Appropriation, and Philosophy and Literature. She is currently working on a
book-length project on nineteenth-century illustrations in the Lambs’ Tales from
Shakespeare, as well as botanical images in Shakespeare’s works.
Robert Sawyer
Robert Sawyer is Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, where
he teaches Shakespeare, Victorian Literature, and Literary Criticism. Author of
Victorian Appropriations of Shakespeare (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2003), he is
also co-editor of Shakespeare and Appropriation (Routledge, 1999), andHarold
Bloom’s Shakespeare (Palgrave, 2001). His essay on the critical connection
between Marlowe and Shakespeare, particularly post-9/11 and entitled “Recent
Reckonings: Marlowe, Shakespeare and 21st Century Terrorism,” was the Co-
Winner of the 2013 Calvin Hoffman Prize. His newest publication is a book
chapter entitled, “‘A Whirl of Aesthetic Terminology’: Swinburne, Shakespeare,
and Ethical Criticism” in Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation. (Palgrave,
2014.)
Alycia Smith-Howard
Alycia Smith-Howard, PhD is an Associate Scholar of The Royal Collection Trust,
Windsor Castle. She is a Shakespeare scholar, performance historian and theatre
director; and, has served as a Shakespeare specialist for a range of plays, films,
radio and television programmes. She is the author of Studio Shakespeare: The
Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place (Ashgate, 2006). Currently, she is
completing a commission on "Shakespeare and Monarchy" for The Royal
Collection Trust.
Michele De Benedictis
Currently studying Comparative Literature at the Università degli Studi di
Cassino, Italy (2010)
aDissertation
nd writing aon the theory of four humours
in Ben Jonson’s comical satire. His main research interests are: Renaissance
Drama, Shakespeare Studies, Early Modern Literature in Europe, History of
Science, Court Studies, Iconography, and an interdisciplinary approach to
dramatic literature.
Thomas Kullman
Thomas Kullmann is Professor of English Literature at the University of
Osnabrück. Currently, his main research interests are Shakespeare and
Renaissance Culture; English Children’s Fiction and Images of India in 19th-
century Britain. His publications include two books on Shakespeare, one on
landscape and weather in the nineteenth-century English novel and one on
English children’s and young adults’ fiction as well as numerous articles on
English Renaissance Literature, Victorian and twentieth-century literature and
culture, and children’s literature. He also edited two volumes of essays on
aspects of English children’s fiction.
http://www.ifaa.uni-osnabrueck.de/mitarbeiter/tkullman
Rui Carvalho Homem
Rui Carvalho Homem is Professor of English at the University of Oporto,
Portugal. He has published extensively on Early Modern English drama,
contemporary Irish poetry, and word-and-image studies. As a literary translator,
he has published versions of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Seamus Heaney and Philip
Larkin. He is currently the Chair of ESRA, the European Shakespeare Research
Association.