Dr. Barbara A. Mowat
Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Research at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Executive Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, Chair of the Folger Institute, and Editor (with Paul Werstine) of the New Folger Library Shakespeare (36 volumes of which have thus far been published). Her major fields of research interest are Shakespeare’s dramatic romances, early modern printed dramatic texts, and Shakespeare’s reading practices. She holds an M.A. degree in English literature from the University of Virginia, a Ph.D. in English literature from Auburn University, and Doctorates of Humane Letters from Amherst College, St. Johns University, and Washington College. Before coming to the Folger, she was Hollifield Professor of English Literature at Auburn University and then Dean of the College at Washington College. She has served as President of the Shakespeare Association of America, President of the Southeast Renaissance Conference, Chair of the MLA Committee on the New Variorum Shakespeare, and has for some years been a member of the Advisory Board of the International Shakespeare Conference (Stratford-upon-Avon).
Dr. Paul Werstine
Paul Werstine is Professor of English at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario, a member of the Graduate Faculty at the University, Editor (with Barbara A. Mowat) of the New Folger Library Shakespeare, and General Editor (with Richard Knowles of the University of Wisconsin--Madision) of the New Variorum Shakespeare, published by the Modern Language Association, for which he is preparing the volume on Romeo and Juliet. He has written extensively about the transmission of early modern English dramatic texts in manuscript and into print, and about the history of editing Shakespeare. Dr. Werstine holds an M.A. degree in English literature from the University of Western Ontario and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of South Carolina.
