Yan Brailowsky

Yan Brailowsky is a lecturer in early modern literature and history at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (France). His research interests currently include prophecy in early modern drama, the history of the reformation, and the relationship between gender and politics in Renaissance Europe. He is the author of The Spider and the Statue: Poisoned innocence in A Winter’s Tale (Presses Universitaires de France, 2010) and William Shakespeare: King Lear (SEDES, 2008), and has co-edited: 1970-2010, les sciences de l’Homme en débat (Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2013), A sad tale’s best for winter: Approches critiques du Conte d’hiver de Shakespeare (Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2011), Le Bannissement et l’exil en Europe au XVIe et XVIIe siècles (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010), and Language and Otherness in Renaissance Culture (Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2008). He is also Secretary of the Société Française Shakespeare and member of the editorial board and webmaster of several French academic websites, furthering his interest in the Digital Humanities and his commitment to Open Access.