Valerie Traub is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and an award winning author and teacher. She is the author of The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (CUP, 2002), Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama (Routledge, 1992; rpt 2014), and most recently Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (Pennsylvania University Press, 2015). She co-edited Gay Shame (2009) and Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (CUP, 1996). Her current project is Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: A Prehistory of Normality.

• PART I: THE LIVES OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; PART II: EARLY MODERN WOMEN'S LIVES; PART III: RACE AND ETHNICITY IN LOCAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS; PART IV: SEXUALITIES; PART V: EMBODIED WORLDS, RECONFIGURED AGENCIES; PART VI: TEXTUAL PRODUCTION AND REPRODUCTION; PART VII: CULTURAL PERFORMANCES PAST AND PRESENT

the volume's forty-three contributors can trace a feminism whose theoretical and historical concerns intersect with other identity-based critical approaches such as queer theory, critical race theory, disability studies, animal studies, and postcolonial studies, as well as historical phenomenology and the new materialism. As this suggests, the volume makes a particularly urgent and timely contribution to our field.