Todd Landon Barnes (PhD, Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 2010) is Associate Professor of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey. His essays and reviews have appeared in Shakespeare Bulletin, Public Books, Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (Eds. Scott Newstok and Ayanna Thompson), Shakespearean Echoes (Eds. Adam Hansen and Kevin Wetmore Jr.) and Hamlet Handbook: Subject Matter, Adaptations, Interpretations (Hamlet Handbuch: Stoff, Aneignungen, Deutungen, Ed. Peter W. Marx). His new research, on early modern finance and debt, is forthcoming in Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader (Ed. A.J. Hartley) part of the Arden Shakespeare's Early Modern Drama Guides series. Barnes has served as dramaturg for the African-American Shakespeare Company in San Francisco, where he also worked in educational outreach. He is currently at work on a monograph entitled Shakespeare and the Neoliberal Arts. He lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

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