Marjorie Garber, Ph. D. is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and American Literature and Language and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University , and the Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.  She is the author of 12 books, including Vested Interests , Vice Versa , Symptoms of Culture , Quotation Marks , Sex and Real Estate , and Dog Love . Her four books on Shakespeare include, most recently, Shakespeare After All , chosen by Newsweek as one of the five best nonfiction books of 2004, and awarded the 2005 Christian Gauss Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Sharon D. Michalove, Ph.D. is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the current Chair of the Richard III Society (American Branch). Having taught courses on a variety of medieval topics including State and Society in the Fifteenth Century and The Wars of the Roses, this summer Sharon taught University of Illinois students in Padua, Italy.  Her published articles include work on the courts of Richard III and Henry VII as well as on medieval women's education and book ownership.  She plans to retire in December 2006 to spend more time on research and travel. 

Phyllis Rackin, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she taught courses in Shakespeare for forty years. A former president of the Shakespeare Association of America, she has published numerous scholarly articles on Shakespeare and related subjects as well as three books: Shakespeare's Tragedies; Stages of History: Shakespeare's English Chronicles; and Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories , which she wrote in collaboration with Professor Jean E. Howard of Columbia University. She has just completed a fourth book entitled Shakespeare and Women for the Oxford Shakespeare Topics Series.

James R. Siemon, Ph.D. is Professor of English at Boston University, where his teaching and research interests focus on Renaissance drama (particularly Shakespeare) and literary theory. He is currently editing the Third Arden edition of Richard III. His numerous works of scholarship include Shakespearean Iconoclasm and Word Against Word: Shakespearean Utterance.

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