Darlene Abreu-Ferreira
is a professor of history at the University of Winnipeg. Her research interests include history of women, children, race, sex, and crime in premodern Europe, with a focus on early modern Portugal. Her monograph Women, Crime, and Forgiveness in Early Modern Portugal was published by Ashgate in 2015, and she is currently working on a study of women and children of African descent in premodern Portugal, for which she received a research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Diego Belmonte Fernández
PhD University of Seville, 2016, is professor in the Department of Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas, University of Seville, Spain. He specializes in palaeography, diplomatic studies, and codicology, with an emphasis on pragmatic codices and medieval documents from the ecclesiastical institutions of Seville. He published the book Organizar, Administrar, Recordar. El Libro Blanco y el Libro de Dotaciones de la Catedral de Sevilla (U. de Sevilla, 2019). He carried out research stays at the École Nationale des Chartes and at the Universities of Florence, Porto, and Strasbourg. He directs the PAIDI research project El patrimonio escondido de las collaciones sevillanas: escritura, documentos y libros and has been a member of others, such as Iglesia y Escritura en Castilla. Siglos XIII–XVII and Iglesia y Escritura en el Occidente Peninsular (Castilla y Portugal). Siglos XII–XVII.
Marina S. Brownlee
is Robert Schirmer Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She received her BA in Hispanic Studies from Smith College and her PhD from Princeton in Romance Languages. The Medieval and Early Modern periods are her primary focus, and within them her interests include cultural and linguistic translation, curiosity and the encyclopedia, and representations of the senses. Brownlee’s books are entitled: The Cultural Labyrinth of María de Zayas, The Severed Word: Ovid’s Heroides and the Novela Sentimental, The Status of the Reading Subject in the Libro de Buen Amor, and The Poetics of Literary Theory in Lope and Cervantes. Currently, she is writing a book on curiosity and modernity in Early Modern Spain. She has also edited a number of volumes on a variety of Medieval and Early Modern topics.
Karen Joy Burch
PhD, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2020, is currently training in archival science at the University of Glasgow (MSc 2024). She specializes in
Marlene Dirschauer
PhD, Freie Universität Berlin, 2020, currently works as a member of the research unit “Spiritual Intermediality in the Early Modern Era” at Universität Hamburg. She specializes in early modern English devotional lyric and modernist literature. Her first monograph, Modernist Waterscapes. Water, Imagination and Materiality in the Works of Virginia Woolf was published with Palgrave Macmillan in 2023. She is also co-editor of the Shakespeare Seminar Online.
Enrique Fernandez
Princeton University, PhD 1998, is professor at the department of French, Spanish and Italian at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He specializes in Spanish early modern literature and culture. He published the book Anxiety of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain (U of Toronto Press, 2015), which won the Canadian Association of Hispanists’ Best Book Award in 2016, and is the editor of A Companion to Celestina. Leiden: Brill and the Renaissance Society of America, 2017. He is also the director of the portal Death and Gender in Early Modernity and of the online portal Celestina Visual. He was president of the Canadian Association of Hispanists and founding president of the Círculo de Estudios de la Literatura Picaresca y Celestinesca CELPYC.
Mireille J. Pardon
PhD, Yale, 2020, is an assistant professor of history at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. She is currently writing a book about homicide and reconciliation in fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Flanders. More broadly, her work explores judicial practice in late medieval cities, yielding publications on medieval crowds, early modern feral children, and the prosecution of violence.
Kirsten Schut
PhD, University of Toronto, 2019 is a Faculty Fellow in the Humanities with the Foundation Year Program at the University of King’s College, Halifax. She previously held postdoctoral research fellowships at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, and history departments at the University of Bristol and the University of Cologne. She specializes in late medieval intellectual and cultural history, especially the thought of the Dominican master of theology
Deirdra Shupe
PhD, Florida State University, 2021 is a visiting professor at Florida State University. She wrote her dissertation on narrative prosthesis for examining instances of disease in literature. She studied the intertextuality in the works of Chaucer, Henryson, and Shakespeare.