Ari Friedlander, Assistant Professor of English, received his Ph.D. in Language and Literature from the Univ. of Michigan in 2011. is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Rogue Sexuality: The Erotics of Social Status in Early Modern England and co-editing a special issue of JEMCS: Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies entitled "Desiring History and Historicizing Desire," based on a recent conference on the same theme he co-organized at the Henry E. Huntington Library. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on Shakespeare and Renaissance literature and culture, as well as theories and histories of gender, sexuality, class, and disability. During the 2015-2016 academic year, Dr. Friedlander held a Mellon-Volkswagen Fellowship at the Freie. He is a member of the Modern Languages Association, Shakespeare Association of America, & Renaissance Society of America.