Laura Estill

is a Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities and Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia). Her first monograph, Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts, focuses on what readers and playgoers took, literally and figuratively, from early modern plays. Her articles and chapters have appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies, The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface, Humanities, Textual Cultures, among others.