Wendy Wall is Avalon Professor for the Humanities, Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, and Director for the Kaplan Humanities Institute at Northwestern University. A specialist in early modern literature and culture, she is author of The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance; Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama; and Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen. Professor Wall has published articles on topics as wide-ranging as Shakespearean drama, food studies, authorship, national identity, book history, manuscript studies, digital pedagogy, gender, poetry, theater, women’s writing, and Jell-O. She has been a recipient of grants and awards for her teaching and research, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Teaching Award from Mortar Board, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Wender-Lewis Research and Teaching Professorship. In addition to giving public lectures in conjunction with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Newberry Library, she has served as President of the Shakespeare Association of America and co-editor of Renaissance Drama. Professor Wall taught a course on “Shakespeare: Justice and Politics” at Stateville Correctional Facility in the spring of 2018.