Editor-Owner-Moderator (Stephanie Chamberlain)
Stephanie Chamberlain is Professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University, where she specializes in Shakespeare and early modern English literature. She has publications in The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal, Journal of the Wooden O Symposium, Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, Explorations in Renaissance Culture, College Literature, Quidditas: JRMMRA, Ben Jonson Journal, in Domestic Arrangements in Early Modern England, edited by Kari Boyd McBride, and in Traveling/Travailing Women: Early Modern England and the Wider World, edited by Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea.
Editor Emeritus (Hardy M. Cook)
Hardy M. Cook, Professor Emeritus, Bowie State University, has authored papers on subjects ranging from Shakespeare on television to the editing of electronic texts. He is the owner/editor/moderator of SHAKSPER: The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference, now in its thirty-first year of service to the Shakespeare academic community. He is co-editor with Ian Lancashire of Shake-speares Sonnets and Louers Complaint and editor of an electronic edition of Venus and Adonis, a part of the edition of Shakespeare's Poems he is preparing for the Internet Shakespeare Editions and Broadview Press. For his work with SHAKSPER and his other scholarly activities, Dr. Cook received the University System of Maryland's Board of Regents Award for Excellence in Scholarship/Research/Creative Activities in April of 1999.
Founding Editor (Ken Steele)
Ken is presently the President & Chief Futurist of Eduvation Inc. <http://eduvation.ca>. More than 25,000 higher education professionals across Canada and the US have come to rely on Ken Steele as a definitive source of breaking news, bright ideas and insight into student trends, technological innovation, strategic planning, branding and recruitment marketing. He has consulted with hundreds of colleges and universities, helping them interpret market research, understand their competitive context, and develop distinctive institutional strategies and brand positions using his proprietary Brand Chemistry™ model.
Assistant Editor of SHAKSPER (Kristin Backert)
Kristin Backert is the Senior Educational Mentor at Thinking Organized, where she coaches children and young adults with executive dysfunction and ADHD. She received her MA in English Literature from the Catholic University of America in 2016. Kristin is in charge of maintaining the list of current and upcoming Shakespeare productions both in the United States and abroad for SHAKSPER.
Book Review Editor of SHAKSPER (Michelle Assay)
Michelle Assay is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Huddersfield. She is working on the project ‘Shakespeare and Censorship in Soviet/Post-Soviet Music, Film and Theatre’. She was born in Tehran and trained in piano performance at the Tchaikovsky Academy in Kiev. She obtained her PhD from the Universities of Sorbonne and Sheffield. She is currently preparing her monograph, ‘Hamlet in the Stalin era’, for publication by Routledge. She is founder and chair of international research groups on ‘Shakespeare and Music’ and ‘Shakespeare in Central and Eastern Europe’. She hosts the podcast series, ‘Sounds and Sweet Airs’ on Shakespeare and music. Alongside publications in this area (including prize-winning articles), she is the co-author of a major life-and-work study of Mieczyslaw Weinberg. She is on the editorial board of Carl Nielsen Studies. She continues to appear in concert as a solo and chamber pianist and is a reviewer for Gramophone.
Web Design, Hosting, and Technical Support (Ron Severdia)
Ron Severdia is an actor <http://rontheactor.com>, the founder of PlayShakespeare.com, the creator of the best Shakespeare iPhone/iPod/iPad app, the co-author of the O'Reilly publication Using Joomla: Building Powerful and Efficient Web Sites and he is on the Leadership Team of the Joomla Project. His prior experience includes stints as Creative Director of content design, Senior Designer and then Creative Director at Young & Rubicam, DDB, Glow, and Landor Associates. Fluent in several languages, he worked for seven years in Europe, where he won a Euro-Effie award for his creative work with Schweppes.