Contributors

Codrin Liviu Cuţitaru is Professor of English and American Literature at University of Iaşi and Ph.D. adviser. He was a guest researcher at the University of Texas (USA, Austin, 1993), a Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of Arizona (USA, Tucson, 1993-1994), a guest professor of English and American Literature at the University of Freiburg (Germany, 1995 and 2000), at the University of Sheffield (UK, 2002) and at the University of London (UK, 2009). He is the author of books on literary history, critical theory, criticism, mentalities: Istoria depersonalizată, Editura Universităţii “ Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, Iaşi, 1997, Jurnalul Vestului Sălbatic. Un studiu de mentalităţi, Editura , Iaşi, 1999, Transcendentalism şi ascendentalism. Proiect de fenomenologie culturală a romantismului american, Editura Universităţii “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, Iaşi, 2001, The Victorian Novel. A Critical Approach, Editura Universităţii “Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, Iaşi, 2004, Reprezentări critice, Editura Standart, Iaşi, 2004, Istoreme, Editura Institutul European, Iaşi, 2009, Prezentul Discontinuu, Editura Institutul European, Iași, 2015, and of numerous articles in various national and international journals and academic volumes.

Gary Harrington is Professor of English at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland. In addition to his book Faulkner’s Fables of Creativity (Macmillan and University of Georgia, 1990), he is the author of articles on the medieval drama, Shakespeare, Faulkner, Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Virginia Woolf, and others. In 2002, he held an appointment as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Literature at UMCS in Lublin, Poland. Michael Hattaway is Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield and currently teaches part-time at New York University in London. Research interests: Shakespeare, Early Modern Drama and Society, Drama in Performance, and Theatre History. Principal publications include : author of Elizabethan Popular Theatre (1982); Hamlet: The Critics Debate (1987); Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature (2005); the editor of As You Like It , and 1-3 Henry VI for the New Cambridge Shakespeare, of plays by Jonson and Beaumont, of A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2000), and of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays (2002) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (1990 and 2003) and Shakespeare in the New Europe (1994).

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Michael Hattaway is Professor of English at New York University in London and Emeritus Professor of English Literature in the University of Sheffield. He was born in New Zealand and studied in Wellington and at Cambridge. Author of Elizabethan Popular Theatre (1982), Hamlet: The Critics Debate (1987), and Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature (2005); editor of As You Like It, and 1-3 Henry VI (New Cambridge Shakespeare), of plays by Ben Jonson and Francis Beaumont, and of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays (2002); and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (1990 and 2003) and Shakespeare in the New Europe (1994). He has written an electronic book on King Richard II (2008) and edited A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2 vols, 2010). In 2010 he gave the Annual Shakespeare Lecture for the British Academy, and in 2015 the opening keynote for the European Shakespeare Research Association in Worcester.

Alan F. Hickman is an Associate Professor of English at the American University in Dubai. He received his Ph.D. in Contemporary British Literature from the University of Arkansas in 1990. He is also an inveterate traveler, having graduated from high school in 1968, in Wiesbaden, Germany, where his father was an Air Force pilot, and having taught English as a second language with the Peace Corps in Thailand and sailed with the U.S. Navy as a PACE (Program for Afloat College Education) instructor. He has taught, at the college level, in the United States, Europe, and Asia. His publications include poems and scholarly articles, most recently in SEDERI 21.

Nicoleta-Mariana Iftimie, PhD in philology, is an Associate Professor of English at “” Technical University of Iași, . She holds a Master’s Degree in English Language Teaching Methodology from the University of Manchester, UK, and a PhD in English and American Literature from “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi. Major fields of research and publication include genre analysis, discourse analysis, theatre semiotics, academic writing, oral and written communication techniques, English for Special Purposes. She is the author or co-author of 9 books and 75 published papers; she has presented over 45 articles in various national and international conferences.

Siobhan Keenan is a Professor in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She is the author of Travelling Players in Shakespeare’s England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), Renaissance Literature (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature) (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), and Acting Companies and Their Plays in Shakespeare’s London (The Arden Shakespeare) (Bloomsbury, 2014) which was selected as a Choice Outstanding 127

Academic Title. She is currently editing a seventeenth-century manuscript comedy, The Twice Chang’d Friar, for the Malone Society and working on a monograph about The Progresses, Processions and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625-42.

Monica Matei-Chesnoiu is Professor of English literature at University Ovidius Constanta, and the director of the project Shakespeare in the Romanian Cultural Memory: A Model of European Cultural Integration. She is the author, among others, of Shakespeare in the Romanian Cultural Memory, with an introduction by Arthur F. Kinney (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006) and Shakespeare: Knowledge and Truth (1997). She is the editor of Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century Romania, introductory note by Ton Hoenselaars (Humanitas, 2006), Shakespeare in Romania. 1900-1950, introductory note by Stanley Wells (Humanitas, 2007), and Shakespeare in Romania. 1950 to the present, introductory note by Balz Engler (Humanitas, 2008). She has published in international academic journals, such as Shakespeare Newsletter and Shakespeare Yearbook and she is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship (1999). Monica Matei-Chesnoiu is a member of the International Committee of Correspondents for the World Shakespeare Bibliography.

Agnieszka Romanowska teaches history of English literature in the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her academic interests include early modern theatre and poetry, the theory and history of literary translation and the literary and theatrical reception of Shakespeare. She is co-editor of a journal of literary translation, “Przekładaniec”, published since 1998 in Kraków (www.ejournals.eu/Przekladaniec/). She is member of the European Society for the Study of English and European Shakespeare Research Association. She is author of Hamlet po polsku. Teatralność szekspirowskiego tekstu dramatycznego jako zagadnienie przekładoznawcze (Hamlet in Polish: Theatrical Potential of Shakespeare’s Dramatic Text in Translation), 2005, and Za głosem tłumacza. Szekspir Iwaszkiewicza, Miłosza i Gałczyńskiego (Following the Translator’s Voice. Shakespeare Translated by Iwaszkiewicz, Miłosz and Gałczyński), 2017. She co-edited three collections of essays: Shakespeare in Europe: History and Memory (2008), Historie przekładów (Histories of Translations), 2010, and Eyes to Wonder, Tongue to Praise (2012). She has published articles on the theatricality of Shakespeare’s dramatic text and on various aspects of theatrical and literary reception of Shakespeare’s plays in Poland.

Laurence Raw teaches at Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey. His recent publications include SIX TURKISH FILMMAKERS (2017) and an edited collection of essays VALUE IN ADAPTATION (also 2017). His current

128 research interests center on pedagogies, adaptation studies, and forging communities of purpose. He blogs on adaptation at laurenceraw.blogspot.com, and writes reviews—and other pieces—on laurenceraw.academa.edu.