CURATOR
Clark Hulse is Professor of English and Art History and Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Humanities Council and has consulted on public humanities projects with the Newberry Library, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and the Chicago Humanities Festival. His research in English Renaissance literature and art history has been supported by Guggenheim and NEH fellowships and grants from the British Academy and College Art Association.

Clark is the author of The Rule of Art: Literature and Painting in the Renaissance (1990) and Metamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic (1981). He also co-edited Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race and Empire in Renaissance England (2000). His numerous articles include essays on Shakespeare, Spenser, Holbein and Titian, and on the teaching of Renaissance literature and culture, including multimedia and online techniques.

SENIOR HISTORICAL CONSULTANT
Carole Levin has been at the University of Nebraska since 1998, where she was recently named Willa Cather Professor of History. Her areas of specialization are late medieval and early modern English cultural and women's history. Carole held a fellowship at the Newberry Library from the Monticello College Foundation and was a long term NEH fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Her book, The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power (1994), was listed by readers of the magazine Lingua Franca as one of the ten best scholarly books of the last decade. Carole is currently editing two books on queens in early modern England: Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman and High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations.

Carole's other publications include The Reign of Elizabeth I (2002), Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World (2000), and Propaganda in the English Reformation: Villainous and Heroic Images of King John (1988). She also co-edited several collections, including Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women (1995) and Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama (1991).

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