Performing Conversion: Cities, Theatre and Early Modern Transformations (Conversions)

José R. Jouve Martin is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. He is the author of the books Slaves of the Lettered City (2005) and The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru (2014). He has co-edited the volumes The Constitution of the Hispanic Baroque (2008), From the Baroque to the Neo-Baroque: Cultural Realities and Cultural Transfers (2011), Contemporary Debates in Ecology, Culture, and Society in Latin America (2011), and Culture Policy and Cultural Markets in Latin America (2013).

Stephen Wittek is Assistant Professor of Literature at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. His research focuses on the media of conversion and the early modern English stage. He is the author of The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News (University of Michigan Press, 2015). Other projects of note include a new edition of The Merchant of Venice for Internet Shakespeare Editions (co-edited with Janelle Jenstad) and the digital humanities project, DREaM, a database that indexes 44,000+ early modern texts, thus making long-neglected material more amenable for use with large-scale analytical tools (with Stéfan Sinclair and Matt Milner).