Lara Dodds is Professor and Head in the Department of English at Mississippi State University. She is the author of The Literary Invention of Margaret Cavendish (Duquesne, 2013). Her research and teaching areas include Margaret Cavendish, early modern women's writing, John Milton, science fiction and adaptation studies.
Michelle M. Dowd is Hudson Strode Professor of English and Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. Her research and teaching focus primarily on Shakespeare, early modern drama, and early modern women's writing. She is the author of Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2009), which won the Sara A. Whaley Book Award from the National Women's Studies Association, and of The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage (Cambridge, 2015). She is also editor of the book series, Strode Studies in Early Modern Literature and Culture, published by the University of Alabama Press.