Comparative Drama

Richard Ashby is Honorary Research Associate in the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the author of King Lear 'After' Auschwitz: Shakespeare, Appropriation and Theatres of Catastrophe in Post-War British Drama (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).

Sheila Coursey is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Compass Lab at Saint Louis University. Her research examines audience engagement and response in late medieval and early modern English drama, with a particular focus on representations of crime. She also studies the afterlives of early English performance in twentieth and twenty-first-century theatre and popular entertainment.

Clifford Davidson is Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Western Michigan University and an Editor Emeritus of Comparative Drama. He is formerly also director of the Early Drama, Art, and Music project in the Medieval Institute. His publications over the past half-century include numerous scholarly articles and books, most recently a TEAMS edition of The York Corpus Christi Plays and a critical study, Corpus Christi Plays at York: A Context for Religious Drama (AMS Press, 2013).

Huw Griffiths is Senior Lecturer of Early Modern English Literature at the University of Sydney and the author of Shakespeare's Body Parts: Figuring Sovereignty in the History Plays (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).

Avishai Henik is a Distinguished Professor of cognitive neuropsychology at the Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is an author of over 250 publications. Henik works in the general area of cognitive neuroscience; more specifically, in the areas of attention, cognitive control, numerical cognition, and synesthesia. His research has been supported by various granting agencies, among them the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) and the European Research Council (ERC).

Mechele Leon is Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of Kansas. Her articles and reviews have been published in Theatre Journal, French Historical Studies, Comparative Drama, and European Studies. She is the author of Molière, [End Page 303] the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife (University of Iowa Press, 2009) and the editor of A Cultural History of Theatre in the Enlightenment (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Patrick Lonergan teaches at the English Department, National University of Ireland, Galway. He writes about theatre in the west of Ireland for The Irish Times and regularly reviews for Irish Theatre Magazine. He has published widely on Irish literature and theatre, and is academic director of the Synge Summer School. Dalit Milshtein is a social activist, theatre creator, and cognitive researcher. She is a member of the avant-garde Created Theater Company and was its director between 1991 and 2016. She has won a variety of awards and honors for her activities, among them the New Israel Foundation Award for Social Change, the Israeli Fringe Award for Innovation, the Zionist Award for directing, and the Heidelberger Stückemarkt Award. Since 2015 she has been an active member in the Cognitive Neuropsychology Lab at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Among her research interests are cognitive processes of imagination, emotion, and acting as a cognitive skill.

Andrew Moore is Associate Professor in the Great Books Program at St. Thomas University. He is the author of Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics (Lexington, 2016) and co-editor of Mad Men: The Death & Redemption of American Democracy (Lexington. 2016).

Matthew Sergi is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, specializing in Medieval English Drama and Performance. He has published numerous articles and chapters on Medieval Drama and is at work on a book about the Chester plays. He is also an experienced performer and director. [End Page 304]