Early Modern Cultural Studies Series

Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture has just been named:

WINNER OF THE 2009 NWSA SARA A. WHALEY BOOK AWARD!!

In the twenty first century, literary criticism, literary theory, historiography and cultural studies have become intimately interwoven, and the formerly distinct fields of literature, society, history, and culture no longer seem so discrete. The Early Modern Cultural Studies series encourages scholarship that crosses boundaries between disciplines, time periods, nations, and theoretical orientations. The series assumes that the early modern period was marked by incipient processes of transculturation brought about through exploration, trade, colonization, and the migration of texts and people. These phenomena set in motion the processes of globalization that remain in force today. The purpose of this series is to publish innovative scholarship that is attentive to the complexity of this early modern world and bold in the methods it employs for studying it.

Series Editors: Ivo Kamps and Jean Howard

Jean E. Howard is George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University where she teaches Renaissance Literature, Feminist Studies, and Literary Theory.  Her books include Shakespeare’s Art of Orchestration: Stage Technique and Audience Response (1984); The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (1994); Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories (1997), co-written with Phyllis Rackin; and Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642 (2007).  The latter recently won the Barnard Hewitt Prize for the outstanding book of theater history for 2008.  In addition, Professor Howard is one of the co-editors of The Norton Shakespeare and has edited seven collections of essays.  The recipient of Guggenheim, ACLS, NEH, and Huntington, Folger, and Newberry Library Fellowships, she has also been President of the Shakespeare Association of America and an active member of many committees of the Modern Language Association.  Currently Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, she is working on two books: a study of the plays of the contemporary feminist dramatist, Caryl Churchill, and a book on Renaissance tragedy. She can be reached at Department of English, 602 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. 

Ivo Kamps is professor of English at the University of Mississippi.  He is the author of Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama (Cambridge, 1996) and a number of edited collections and articles on Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, literary theory, and travel.  He is co-editor of Early Modern Ecostudies: From the Florentine Codex to Shakespeare (Palgrave, 2008).  Most recently, he edited Hamlet and Twelfth Night for The Norton Anthology of Drama (2009).  He can be reached at Department of English, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677.