Professor Emeritus Sandra Logan retired from Michigan State University in 2023, after a twenty year career in the College of Arts and Letters Department of English. She has been a longstanding friend of OVSC, having hosted an Ohio Shakespeare Conference in Michigan. Her early research includes the history and theory of drama (including Shakespeare), poetry and poetics, historiography, and women writers. More recently she has considered conjunctions between contemporary and early modern political theory in relation to Shakespeare’s plays. Her books include Text/Events in Early Modern England: Poetics of History (Ashgate, 2007), and Shakespeare’s Foreign Queens: Drama, Politics, and the Enemy Within (Palgrave, 2018). She is currently developing an invited monograph for Arden’s Shakespeare and Theory series entitled Shakespeare and Political Theology.
Mira ‘Assaf is completing her first manuscript, titled Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens, and Constructions of Race in Early Modern England. She was a 2023-2024 Folger Shakespeare Library Long-Term fellow. Her public humanities essays have appeared in several online publications, including Shakespeare Globe, The Sundial, The Millions, Overland Journal, The Rambling, The Conversation, Medium-Equity, and The Platform. ‘Assaf currently serves as Early Modern Section Editor for The Sundial. In 2023-2024, she served on the Program Committee for the Shakespeare Association of America. Her work has been supported by generous grants and fellowship from The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Shakespeare Association of America, The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), The Renaissance Society of America, The Women’s Place at The Ohio State University; The Muslim Studies Endowment (Butler), and NEH/Frederic M. Ayres Fund (Butler).