Comparative Drama

Igor Djordjevic is an Associate Professor of Early Modern English literature at York University and the Chair of the English Department at Glendon College. He is the author of Holinshed's Nation: Ideals, Memory, and Practical Policy in the Chronicles (Ashgate, 2010) and King John (Mis)Remembered: The Dunmow Chronicle, the Lord Admiral's Men, and the Formation of Cultural Memory (Ashgate, 2015), and he has published chapters and articles focused on Renaissance drama and eighteenth-century literature in editions such as The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles (2013) and journals including Renaissance and Reformation, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, The Shandean, and Swift Studies.

Daniel Gustafson is an Associate Professor of English at the City College of New York. He is the author of Lothario's Corpse: Libertine Drama and the Long-Running Restoration, 1700-1832 (Bucknell University Press, 2020).

Chris Highley is Professor of English at the Ohio State University where he is also director of The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. His most recent book is Blackfriars in Early Modern London: Theater, Church, and Neighborhood (Oxford University Press, 2022). As a Project Associate at the online Map of Early Modern London, he coordinates the London Parish Project.

Nancy Jones is a Professor of Theatre at the University of Kentucky. Molière's Women (a play she wrote and directed) premiered in Paris, France in 2007. Her translations include The Maids, The Lesson, The Bald Soprano, and Marivaux's The Dispute, which played at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Her research centers on French theatre, comedy, and feminist theory, and her work as a Theatre Director has been featured at the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, New York Fringe Festival, and New Dramatists. Nancy is s former board member for the National Association of Schools of Theatre and was Chair of the UK theatre department for twelve years.

Pamela King is Professor Emerita of Medieval Studies in the University of Glasgow. She is an interdisciplinary medievalist publishing on late medieval English literature, theatre, tomb sculpture, and manuscripts, as well as civic festivals past and present. Her books include The York Mystery Cycle and the Worship of the City (2006), Medieval Literature 1300-1500 (2013), (ed.) The Routledge Research Companion to Early Drama and Performance (2017), and Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts (selected essays edited by Alexandra F. Johnston, 2021).

Sophie Nield teaches in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance, School of Performing and Digital Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She writes on questions of space, theatricality and representation in political life and the law, and on the performance of 'borders' of various kinds. Recent work has focused on the picket line as a theatrical space, and on law, violence and theatricality in the trial of the Chicago 8. She also publishes on aspects of nineteenth century culture, including studies of Bram Stoker's Dracula, migration and disease; the London Dock Strike of 1889; and the impact of theatre technology on the modernist visual imagination.

Bella Poynton is an Assistant Professor of English and Theatre at Medaille University where she also serves as English Program Director. Her scholarly work has been published in Theatre/Practice, Global Performance Studies, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Texas Theatre Journal. Her current research focuses robotics, AI, cyberculture, and emerging technologies in theatrical performance. She is a co-editor of Interventions at Contemporary Theatre Review, and currently serves as the Graduate Liaison for the Mid America Theatre Festival's Playwriting Symposium.

Marc Edward Shaw is Professor and Chair of Theatre Arts at Hartwick College in central New York. He is co-editor of Singing and Dancing to The Book of Mormon: Critical Essays on the Broadway Musical (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017); HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege (Lexington Books, 2015); and, Performing American Masculinities: The 21st-Century Man in Popular Culture (Indiana University Press, 2011). His writing also appears in Routledge, Salon.com, Theatre Journal, Shakespeare Bulletin, Rodopi Press, McFarland Press, Wiley & Sons, Modern Drama, and Theatre Topics.

Jessica Winston is Professor of English at Idaho State University. She is the author of...