Professor Jill Ingram holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Virginia, and her research focuses on the intersection of economics and literature in the English Renaissance. Author of Festive Enterprise: The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England (Notre Dame University Press, ReFormations series [James Simpson, David Aers, and Sarah Beckwith, eds.] March 2021), Idioms of Self-Interest: Credit, Identity, and Property in English Renaissance Literature (Routledge, 2006; paperback, 2009), and the New Kittredge edition of Shakespeare’s play Love’s Labour’s Lost (Hackett, 2011), she has also recently published essays in the collection Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Taylor and Francis, 2021), and in the journals Shakespeare Studies, English Literary Renaissance and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She previously taught at Ohio University and Macalester College. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Earhart Foundation. She also studies theater history and festive culture, with a particular interest in London’s Lord Mayor’s shows in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.