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Ph.D., DLitt, is Professor Emerita of Ovidius University of Constanta (Romania). She is the author of Geoparsing Early Modern English Drama (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Re-imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere: Representations of Liminal Locality in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses, 2009), and Shakespeare in the Romanian Cultural Memory (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006). Her main interests incorporate geocriticism and spatial literary studies, including representations of space, place, and geography in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

teaches Shakespeare, Presentism and Performance at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He wrote/edited/participated (in) books on the abolishment of slavery, multicultural society, blackface and performance, diversity and leadership, cross-cultural communication and performing early modern drama today and published in a variety of journals, including Cahiers Élisabéthains, Human Relations, Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, Policing, Sederi Yearbook, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare Quarterly, Sustainability, TheConversation.com and Theatre Journal. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the British Shakespeare Association, the editorial board of Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance and the advisory board on Shakespeare and Social Justice at Bloomsbury. He has taught in the Netherlands, the UK, Curaçao, Germany, Saint Martin and Latvia. He is currently working on Shakespeare and significance, on Shylock and religion, on adaptations of Macbeth and on Shakespeare pedagogy.