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Pavneet Aulakh Editor

Pavneet Aulakh is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Vanderbilt University. Primarily positioned at the intersection of seventeenth-century imaginative literature and natural philosophy, he is currently working on his monograph Digesting Bacon in Seventeenth-Century England. James Kearney is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity: Phenomenology, Theater, Experience (2025) and The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England (2010), which won CCL’s Book of the Year Award. With Julia Reinhard Lupton and Lowell Gallagher, he co-edited Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy (2020).