Jane Donawerth, professor emerita of the University of Maryland, is author of Shakespeare and the Sixteenth-Century Study of Language and Conversational Rhetoric: The Rise and Fall of a Women’s Tradition, 1600–1900, and co-translator of Madeleine de Scudéry’s Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues.
Rebecca M. Lush is associate professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos. She has published on Aphra Behn, James Fenimore Cooper, and Gerald Vizenor in journals including Studies in American Indian Literatures and Early Modern Women.