Kristen Abbott Bennett
Associate Professor at Framingham State University.
Project Founder and Director of the Kit Marlowe Project Assistant.
Director, Pedagogy for the Map of Early Modern London.
Kristen Abbott Bennett is an Associate Professor of English at Framingham State University. She is the Project Founder and Director of the Kit Marlowe Project, a digital space designed to introduce undergraduates with diverse majors to project-driven, research-based learning, and digital humanities practices in the context of studying one of Elizabethan England’s most compelling literary figures, Christopher Marlowe. She also serves as Assistant Director of Pedagogy for the Map of Early Modern London digital resource (administered by the University of Victoria), and assisted in developing digital humanities pedagogies for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama. She has published and edited a collection of essays entitled Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England (1549 – 1640), as well as numerous essays discussing classical, medieval, and early modern literature, as well as complementary digital pedagogies. Her first monograph, Teaching Shakespeare’s Theatre of the World, is under contract with Cambridge University Press as part of the Cambridge Elements Series.
Eric Rasmussen
Regents Teaching Professor and Foundation Professor of English at the University of Nevada.
General Editor for the NVS and Editor of the New Variorum Edition of Hamlet.
A foundation professor and chair of the English department at the University of Nevada, Reno, Eric Rasmussen has been called "the Robert Langdon of the Shakespearean world" by the Washington Post. Stories about his recent authentication of a newly discovered Shakespeare First Folio were featured in the New York Times, USA Today, The Guardian, NPR, CNN, and the BBC. His narrative account of The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios (Palgrave) was serialized by both the London Sunday Times and Australia's national newspaper, The Age, and has been translated into Portuguese and Japanese. He has co-edited the Royal Shakespeare Company's Collaborative Plays by William Shakespeare and Others, The Shakespeare First Folios: A Descriptive Catalogue, and The Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works of William Shakespeare. He received the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespearean Book of the Year from PlayShakespeare.com in 2007, 2012, and again in 2013.
Rasmussen is the co-editor of The Norton Anthology of English Renaissance Drama, as well as critical editions for the Arden Shakespeare, Oxford's World's Classics, the Revels Plays, and the Malone Society. He is a contributor to The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (named Book of the Year for 2012 by the Times Literary Supplement) and Shakespeare Beyond Doubt (named Book of the Year for 2013 by both the TLS and History Today).
Rasmussen has served on the board of trustees of the Shakespeare Association of America and the Council of the Malone Society. He is currently a general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare and of the Internet Shakespeare Editions Project, and served as the U.S. representative on the advisory board for the 2016 World Shakespeare Exhibition at the British Library in London.
