Sharon O’Dair is Professor Emerita of English and was the former director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama, USA. She is author of Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars (2000). She co-edited The Production of English Renaissance Culture (1994) and edited “Shakespeareans in the Tempest: Lives and Afterlives of Katrina,” a special issue Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation (Fall/Winter 2010). She is author of over sixty essays on Shakespeare, literary theory, and the profession.