Biographical Information
Clifford Davidson
is Professor of English and Medieval Studies Emeritus at Western Michigan University, where he was for a quarter century director of the Early Drama, Art, and Music project in the Medieval Institute as well as serving as a co-editor of the international journal Comparative Drama. His first article was a study of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus that appeared in Studies in Philology in 1962. Since that time he has published numerous books, articles, and reviews, most recently a monograph Studies in Late Medieval Wall Paintings, Manuscript Illuminations, and Texts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and, in collaboration with Ton Broos and Martin Walsh, an edition of Mary of Nemmegen: The ca. 1518 Translation and Middle Dutch Analogue, Mariken van Nieumeghen (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016). Among his other recent books are Corpus Christi Plays at York: A Context for Religious Drama (New York: AMS Press, 2013), Festivals and Plays in Late Medieval Britain (Aldershot, Hants.: Ashgate, 2007), and a student edition of The York Corpus Christi Plays (TEAMS; Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2011).
Sophie Oosterwijk
is a multilingual Dutch medievalist with two doctorates in the History of Art (Leicester) and Middle English Literature (Leiden). She has taught at the universities of Manchester, Leicester, and St. Andrews, previously held a research post with the Medieval Memoria Online (MeMO) project at Utrecht University, and was for many years Editor of the peer-reviewed international journal Church Monuments. She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow in Art History at the University of St. Andrews and Vice President of the Church Monuments Society. She is an internationally recognized expert on the Dance of Death, which was the subject of her second doctoral thesis entitled “‘Fro Paris to Inglond’? The Danse Macabre in Text and Image in Late-Medieval England.” Her many publications include the edited volumes (with Sally Badham, eds.) Monumental Industry: The Production of Tomb Sculpture in England and Wales in the Long Fourteenth Century (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2010) and (with Stefanie Knöll, eds.), Mixed Metaphors: The Danse Macabre in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011).