Ronda Arab
Dr. Ronda Arab (PhD Columbia) is an assistant professor of English at Simon Fraser
University. Her research interests include intersections of class, gender, and work
on the
early modern English stage; non-elite culture and its challenges to patriarchy; the
role of
literature and theatre in the construction of cultural discourse and social practice;
and
the city of London. She is the author of Manly Mechanicals on the Early
Modern English Stage (Susquehanna UP, 2011), an examination of working men in
Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and has a recent article in Working
Subjects in Early Modern English Drama (Ashgate, 2011). She has also published in
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Renaissance
Quarterly.
