James L. Harner: In Memoriam

Laura Estill is an Associate Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, and and editor of the World Shakespeare Bibliography (www.worldshakesbib.org). Her monograph, Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth- Century English Manuscripts: Watching, Reading, Changing Plays, appeared in 2015 (U of Delaware P). With Diane Jakacki and Michael Ullyot, she coedited Early Modern Studies after the Digital Turn (Iter & ACMRS, 2016). Her work has appeared in journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly, Huntington Library Quarterly, the British Shakespeare Association’s Shakespeare, Studies in English Literature, and Digital Literary Studies, to name a few. She has contributed chapters to Shakespeare and Textual Studies (ed. Sonia Massai and Margaret Jane Kidnie), and The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (ed. Arthur F. Kinney). She has pieces forthcoming from Digital Humanities Quarterly, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America and, with Andie Silva, Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (ed. Janelle Jenstad, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, and Mark Kaethler). She is currently working on DEx: A Database of Dramatic Extracts. With Tamara Atkin, she is editing Early British Drama in Manuscript (Brepols).

Lingui Yang is Professor of English and Director of the Shakespeare Institute at Donghua University. He received his doctorate in English, specializing in early modern and Shakespeare studies, from Texas A&M University, College Station in 2003. His dissertation “Materialist Shakespeare and Modern China” was under the supervision of Jim Harner. His major research interest is Shakespeare although he also publishes on American literature and translation studies. Yang has published numerous essays on Shakespeare. His recent book publications include Shakespeare and Asia (Edwin Mellen Press, 2010), Shakespeare in Old and New Asias (University of Lodz Press, 2013), Shakespeare Studies in China (7 volumes, Northeast Normal University Press, 2013), and Selected Shakespeare Studies (5 volumes, Beijing: the Commercial Press, forthcoming in 2017).

Monica Matei-Chesnoui, PhD, DLitt, is Professor of Shakespeare and early modern English literature at Ovidius University of Constanta (Romania). She is the author of Geoparsing Early Modern English Drama (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Re-imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 212), Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere: Representations of Liminal Locality in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009), and Shakespeare in the Romanian Cultural Memory, with an introduction by Arthur F. Kinney (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006). She is a Fulbright Fellow (1998-1999), Humboldt Fellow (2009-2010), and SCIEX Fellow (2013-2014). Matei-Chesnoiu is editor of five volumes of essays about Shakespearein Romania (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2016) and director of the project Shakespeare in the Romanian Cultural Memory (2005-2008). Her main interests incorporate geocriticism and spatial literary studies, including representations of space, place, and geography in Shakespeare and other English playwrights. Matei-Chesnoiu is a member of the International Committee of Correspondents for the World Shakespeare Bibliography.

José Manuel González is currently Professor of English Literature at the University of Alicante, Spain. His areas of academic specialization include Shakespeare Studies and Golden Age Spanish Drama. He is the author of a number of books and articles on various aspects of early modern poetry and drama in England and Spain. He has been Visiting Professor at the universities of Delaware (2003/2007), South Carolina (2005), Groningen (2006), Bangor (2007), Lodz (2013), and King’s College London (2014-2015). He is a member of the International Committee of Correspondents of the World Shakespeare Bibliography and of the editorial board of Multicultural Shakespeare. His latest contributions have appeared in Women Making Shakespeare (Bloomsbury 2013) and Shakespeare and the Visual Arts (Routledge 2017). His latest book Cervantes y Shakespeare. Una aproximación comparativa was published by Síntesis in 2016. He is also the general editor of Cervantes-Shakespeare: Context, Influence, Relation (Reichenberger 2017). A short biography has appeared in Who’sWho in the World since 2004.

Jacob Heil, PhD, is the College of Wooster’s Digital Scholarship Librarian and the Director of its Collaborative Research Environment (CoRE). As the former, he partners with library colleagues, faculty, and students as we explore digital technologies and resources for our teaching and research. In my capacity as the latter, he collaborates with campus stakeholders to build CoRE into an environment that is not only for collaborative research, but is one in which students’ process-based projects provide an ever-evolving backdrop. Additionally, he offer a course in Digital Humanities meanings and methods at the College. Most recently, Heil was the Mellon Digital Scholar for The Five Colleges of Ohio, working under the auspices of the Digital Scholarship: Projects & Pedagogy grant, which was generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As the Ohio Five Digital Scholar, Heil worked with librarians and faculty across the five colleges to help small, often interdepartmental teams to imagine, plan, and develop digital pedagogical projects. Before joining the Ohio Five, he was a book historian and project manager on the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP), a Mellon-funded initiative centered at his alma mater, Texas A&M University.

Julie D. Campbell is Professor of English and Women’s Studies Faculty at Eastern Illinois University. She is the author of Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2006) and the editor and translator of Isabella Andreini’s pastoral tragicomedy, La Mirtilla (ACMRS, 2002). With Anne R. Larsen, she has edited and contributed to Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters (Ashgate, 2009). With Maria Galli Stampino, she has edited and contributed to In Dialogue with the Other Voice in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Literary and Social Contexts for Women’s Writing, The Other Voice Series (CRRS, 2011). With Pamela Brown and Eric Nicholson, she is translating Isabella Andreini’s Contrasti (forthcoming, ACMRS). In December, 2017, with Allyson Poska and Bernadette Andrea, she will begin co-editing Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Youmi Jung is a PhD Candidate in English at Texas A&M University. She is currently writing a dissertation on lady libertines in early modern English drama and society. Her research interests include early modern drama, theater history, early modern print culture ranging from play texts, pamphlets, engravings, portraits, to fictional memoirs. Her research has recently been supported by a grant-in-aid from Folger Institute and a graduate research fellowship from Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research.

Nicole Hagstrom-Schmidt is a PhD candidate in English at Texas A&M University and a former Doctoral Fellow for the World Shakespeare Bibliography. Her dissertation explores the use and misuse of multiple forms of evidence in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century drama.