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Professor Trevor Dean
Professor of History, Roehampton University
email: T.Dean@roehampton.ac.uk

Research interests: Gender, crime and violence in Renaissance Italy.
Publications include: Crime, Society and the Law in Renaissance Italy, ed. Trevor Dean and KJP Lowe (Cambridge University Press, 1994); Clean Hands and Rough Justice: An Investigating Magistrate in Renaissance Italy (with DS Chambers) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997); Marriage in Italy: 1300-1650, ed. Trevor Dean and KJP Lowe (Cambridge University Press, 1998); The Towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages, ed. and trans. Trevor Dean (Manchester University Press, 2000).
Professor Dean is currently is researching the criminal world of Renaissance Italy, including insult, theft and female violence.

Professor Peter Edwards
Professor of Local and Early Modern British History, Roehampton University
email: P.Edwards@roehampton.ac.uk

Research interests: Early modern warfare; rural society in Tudor and Stuart England; and the cultural, social and economic role of the horse in the Renaissance.
Publications include: Dealing in Death: The Arms Trade and the British Civil Wars, 1638-52 (Far Thrupp: Sutton Publishing, 2000); 'Logistics and Supply', in J Kenyon and J Ohlmeyer, eds. The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland and Ireland 1638-1660 (Oxford University Press, 1995); The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England (Cambridge University Press, 1988); 'Une forme d' étalage ostentatoire: la mode pour les carosses parmi l'aristocratie d'Angleterre aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles', in D Reytier, ed. Voiture, chevaux et attelages en Europe (Paris: Assoc. pour l'Académie d'Art Equestre de Versailles, 1998); 'Farm and Family: the Administration of the Estate of William Poore, an Elizabethan Yeoman-Farmer', Southern History, 16 (1994).
Professor Edwards is currently working on books on the arms trade in the Thirty Years' War and on horses and culture in Early Modern England.

Dr Jane Kingsley-Smith
Lecturer in English Literature, Roehampton University
email: j.kingsley-smith@rus.roehampton.ac.uk

Research interests: Shakespeare and Renaissance literature.
Publications include: Shakespeare's Drama of Exile (Palgrave, 2003); the Introduction to the new Penguin edition of Henry VI Part One (2005); an edition of Robert Daborne's The Poor Man's Comfort (Globe Quartos, 2005); and articles on Sidney's Arcadia and Shakespeare in Love.
Dr Kingsley-Smith is currently working on a monograph to be entitled Lovestruck: Cupid in England 1557-1634.

Dr Aislinn Loconte
Lecturer in Art History, Roehampton University
email: a.loconte@roehampton.ac.uk

Research interests include: Early Modern Italian art, Neapolitan art and urbanism, women and visual culture in Early Modern Europe, Renaissance court culture, the writings of Giorgio Vasari, and art historiographies
Publications include: articles on royal women’s patronage of art and architecture in Angevin Naples.
Dr Loconte is currently preparing a monograph entitled Patronage, Art and Power: Royal Women in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Kingdom of Naples as well as contributing to the catalogue for an forthcoming exhibition on Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art in the Royal Collection.

Dr Clare McManus
Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Roehampton University
email: c.mcmanus@roehampton.ac.uk

Research interests include: the interdisciplinary reading of early modern theatre; early modern women’s performance; gender; the cultures of the Renaissance court; editing Renaissance dramatic texts.
Publications include: (as author) Women on the Renaissance Stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court (1590-1619) (Manchester University Press, 2002); (as editor) Women and Culture at the Courts of the Stuart Queens (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Ewan Fernie, Ramona Wray, Mark Thornton Burnett and Clare McManus (eds), Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Dr McManus is currently editing John Fletcher’s Island Princess for the Arden Early Modern Drama series.

Dr Neil Taylor
Director of Research, Roehampton University
email: N.Taylor@roehampton.ac.uk

Current research concentrates on Shakespeare, primarily Hamlet, which he has edited with Ann Thompson (Arden 2006) and Shakespeare on film and television. He has published William Shakespeare: Hamlet (with Ann Thompson; Northcote House, 1996) and edited Henry IV Part Two (Ginn, 1972), Thomas Middleton: Five Plays (with Bryan Loughrey; Penguin, 1988), and Shakespeare's Early Tragedies (with Bryan Loughrey; Macmillan, 1990). His articles and book chapters on Shakespeare and Middleton have been published in journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey, TEXT, and in books such as Shakespeare and the Moving Image (ed. Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells, CUP, 1994) and The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film (ed. Russell Jackson, Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Dr Andrew Wareham
Director, British Academy Hearth Tax Project, Roehampton University
email: A.Wareham@roehampton.ac.uk

Andrew Wareham’s research investigates pre-modern English and Chinese history within a comparative framework. General studies on the social order have been complemented by comparative articles, which range from analyses of the spiritual initiatives of Benedictine and Buddhist monks to the adoption of divergent water management strategies in East and West. Andrew is currently working on the context for the emergence of the modern fiscal state, and on questions of wealth and poverty in London and its suburbs on the eve of the Great Fire (1666), as reflected in the hearth tax returns.