A Companion to the Global Renaissance

Jan de Hondis a curator of the History Department of the Rijksmuseum, where he is responsible for the seventeenth century. He wrote his dissertation on Orientalism in Dutch Culture, 1800–1920 . He is specialized in Dutch colonial history and has published on the (cultural) relations between the Dutch Republic and the Moghul Safavid and Ottoman Empire.

Stephen Dengis Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University. He is the author of Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), editor of A Cultural History of Money in the Renaissance (Bloomsbury, 2019), and coeditor (with Barbara Sebek) of Global Traffic: Discourses and Practices of Trade in English Literature and Culture from 1550 to 1700 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). He has also written on the literary impacts on transformations in English commercial and colonial culture, c. 1620–1660; on the “new mathematics” and sexuality in Shakespeare’s sonnets; and on Sir Edward Coke’s translation of English common law and the establishment of a “juristic public” in seventeenth-century England. Currently, he is working on a second monograph tentatively titled “ Hamlet and Accountability.”

Matthew Dimmockis Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex. His research has focused on the interaction of peoples and ideas that took place as a consequence of early modern England’s “expansionary thrust” in the late sixteenth century. This research has generated a series of articles and monographs, including New Turkes: Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2005), Mythologies of the Prophet Muhammad (Oxford University Press, 2013), and Elizabethan Globalism (Yale University Press, 2019). It has also involved editorial work, including William Percy’s Mahomet and His Heaven: A Critical Edition (Ashgate, 2006), editorial contributions to the Norton Shakespeare 3 , and current editorial research for the Oxford Hakluyt and Oxford Nashe projects.

Mary Fulleris Professor of Literature and MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT, where she has served as department head and Associate Chair of the Institute faculty. Her research focuses on early modern English geography and exploration and the related histories of practices, narratives, and material texts as these extend across space and time. She is currently working on a book about Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations of the English Nation (1600) and editing materials on the Northwest Passage for the projected Oxford edition of Hakluyt’s compilation. Her publications include Voyages in Print: English Travel to America 1576–1624 (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and Remembering the Early Modern Voyage (Palgrave, 2008) as well as numerous articles and book chapters.

Dr. Masoud “Kasra” Ghorbaninejadearned his PhD in English at Northeastern University, Boston, MA (2018) and, after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Victoria (UVic), Victoria, BC, has worked at UCLA and now at University of Victoria as a digital humanist. He has published on comparative literature, drama and theater, and digital humanities; coauthored with Nathan Gibson and David Joseph Wrisley, “⅃TЯ” in Debates in the Digital Humanities 2012 (University of Minnesota Press, 2012); coauthored with Behzad Ghaderi Sohi, “Ali Nassirian and a Modern Iranian ‘National’ Theatre,” Asian Theatre Journal 29.2 (2012): 495–527; coauthored with Behzad Ghaderi Sohi, “Modernity and ‘Monstros/city’ in Othello and Nassirian’s Halu ,” Persian Literary Studies Journal 1.1 (2012): 7–40; and coauthored with Behzad Ghaderi Sohi, “Peer Gynt and the Cult of Mithras,” North-West Passage 5 (2008): 151–159.

Jos J. L. Gommansis Professor of Colonial and Global History at Leiden University. He is the author of two monographs on early-modern south and central Asian history: The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, 1710–1780 , (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and High Roads to Empire (Routledge, 2002). An omnibus of his work came out recently as The Indian Frontier: Horse and Warband in the Making of Empires (Routledge, 2018). He also wrote extensively on Dutch colonial history, coedited Exploring the Dutch Empire (Bloomsbury, 2005), and coauthored the monograph The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2020). In addition, he produced various Dutch source publications, including one archival inventory and two historical VOC atlases. He contributed to major works of reference like the Encyclopaedia of Islam and the Cambridge World History . In recent years his work focused on the Indo-Dutch artistic encounter and wrote The Unseen World: The Netherlands and India from 1550 (Vantilt, 2018) for the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum and acted as guest curator of the 2019 exhibition “India and the Netherlands in the Age of Rembrandt” at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Marahaj Vastu Sangrahalaya at Mumbai.

Andrew Hadfieldis Professor of English at the University of Sussex and visiting professor at the University of Granada. He is the author of a number of books on early modern literature and culture, most recently, Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Edmund Spenser: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Lying in Early Modern English Culture (Oxford University Press, 2017). John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion will appear in 2021, as will his edition of James Shirley’s The Politician (edited with Duncan Fraser). He is currently completing a study of literature and class from the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution and is coediting the works of Thomas Nashe (with Joe Black, Jennifer Richards, and Cathy Shrank), and a revised version of the anthology, Amazons, Savages and Machiavels (with Matthew Dimmock). He is a regular reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement and The Irish Times and was chair of the Society for Renaissance Studies (2016–2019).

Chloë Houstonis Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading. She is the author of a study of early modern utopian literature, The Renaissance Utopia: Dialogue, Travel and the Ideal Society (Ashgate, 2013). She has also edited a collection of essays on representations of utopias and new worlds from 1500 to 1800, New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period (Ashgate, 2010). Her current research interests focus on the dramatization of Persia and the Persian Empire on the early modern English stage.

Jean E. Howardis George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where she teaches early modern literature, Shakespeare, feminist studies, and theater history. Besides editing six collections of essays, Howard is author of over fifty articles and several books, including Shakespeare’s Art of Orchestration: Stage Technique and Audience Response (University of Illinois Press, 1984); The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England (Routledge, 1994); Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories (Routledge, 1997), co-written with Phyllis Rackin; Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598–1642 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007); and Marx and Shakespeare , cowritten with Crystal Bartolovich (Continuum, 2012). She is also a coeditor of The Norton Shakespeare (now in its third edition) and general editor of the Bedford contextual editions of Shakespeare. Her new book, Staging History: Forging the Body Politic , on the history play in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American and English theater, is nearing completion.