Shauna Barrett
Shauna Barrett is employed by University College London and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre working in Research.
Patrick Gray
Patrick Gray is a lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, a member in the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and a fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing.
Valerie Hotchkiss
Valerie Hotchkiss is the Andrew S. G. Turyn Endowed Professor and Director of The Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She likes to quote Shakespeare whenever possible and her favorite character is Prospero because his library was dukedom large enough.
Tony Hynes
Tony Hynes is the Public Services Manager at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After surviving King Lear and Macbeth in high school, he went on to get a master’s degree in anthropology from the University of Auckland. Having spent the last few years pulling out the First Folio numerous times he has come to realize that there just might be some talent to this man called Shakespeare.
Simon J. James
Simon J. James is a Professor of Victorian Literature and, currently, Head of the Department of English Studies, Durham University. He is the author of Unsettled Accounts: Money and Narrative Form in the Novels of George Gissing (Anthem, 2003) and Maps of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture (OUP, 2012). He has also published articles on Charles Dickens, Arnold Bennett, Marie Corelli and George du Maurier, and edited work by Gissing and Wells. He is a former editor of The Wellsian, the scholarly journal of the H. G. Wells Society. Current projects include an electronic edition of the manuscript of The Time Machine and a scholarly edition of Decline and Fall, for OUP’s Collected Works of Evelyn Waugh, and books on Dickens and on the male bond in Victorian and Edwardian fiction.
Bethany Spieth
Bethany Spieth holds a bachelor’s degree in German and Creative Writing from Ohio University, and a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois. Her favorite Shakespeare play is “Buying a Bed,” and her favorite Monty Python sketch is King Lear.
Victoria Lane
Victoria Lane is the Archivist at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Carmi Parker
Carmi Parker holds an MLIS from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is the owner of Knight & Lion, which provides web development and outreach services to heritage organizations. Her favorite Shakespearian character is Beatrice.
Fred Robinson
Fred Robinson is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University.
Brian Walsh
Brian Walsh is as Associate Professor of English at Yale University.
Dylan Burns
Dylan Burns is a second year MSLIS student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He works as the Digital Projects Graduate Assistant at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Samantha Bonadies
Samantha Bonadies is an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign studying graphic design.