Project Team
Lukas Erne is Professor of English at the University of Geneva. He is the author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (2003; 2nd edition, 2013), Shakespeare and the Book Trade (2013), Shakespeare’s Modern Collaborators (2008), and Beyond “The Spanish Tragedy”: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (2001). He has edited The First Quarto of Romeo and Juliet (2007), Soliman and Perseda (2014), Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare’s Drama, with M.J. Kidnie (2004), and Medieval and Early Modern Authorship, with Guillemette Bolens (2011). In 2012, he gave the Lyell Lectures at the University of Oxford.
Devani Singh is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Geneva, where she leads an FNS-'Ambizione' project on the emergence of the epistle to the reader in English books. Her publications include essays in The Chaucer Review, the Journal of the Early Book Society and Digital Philology, as well as Shakespeare in Geneva, with Lukas Erne (2018). She is the recipient of research fellowships from the Bodleian Libraries, the Bibliographical Society, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto.