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Karen Raber is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, specializing in Renaissance literature with emphasis on ecostudies, animal studies, and posthumanist theory; she also currently serves as the Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America. Her publications include three monographs--Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory (2018), Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture (2013), and Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class, and Genre in the Early Modern Closet Drama (2001)--over forty articles and book chapters, and several edited collections, including Performing Animals: History, Agency, Theater (Penn State, 2017) coedited with Monica Mattfeld; Early Modern Ecostudies: From Shakespeare to the Florentine Codex (Palgrave 2009) coedited with Ivo Kamps and Thomas Hallock; and The Culture of the Horse: Status, Discipline and Identity in the Early Modern World (Palgrave 2005) coedited with Treva Tucker. She edits Routledge's series Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture (https://www.routledge.com/Perspectives-on-the-Non-Human-in-Literature-and-Cul