Contributors

Catherine Bates is Research Professor at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. She is author of The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature (Cambridge, ), Play in a Godless World: The Theory and Practice of Play in Shakespeare, Nietzsche, and Freud (London, ), Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric (Cambridge, ), Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (Oxford, ), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize , and On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's ‘Defence of Poesy’ (Oxford, ), winner of the Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 Elizabeth Dietz Award . She is editor and/or co-editor of seven edited volumes, including New Developments in Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis (Palgrave Macmillan, ).

Hannah Lucas is the Newby Trust Research Fellow at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Her research lies at the intersection of literary history, the medical humanities, theology, and philosophy—focused on medieval contemplative texts, and the relationship between the medieval and the modern. She has published widely on medieval mysticism, including articles on mystical language and AI Text-to-Image models, medical language in Julian of Norwich's Revelations, and religious identity and textiles in The Book of Margery Kempe. Her first monograph, Impossible Recovery: Julian of Norwich and the Phenomenology of Wellbeing, which brings the Julian of Norwich texts into dialogue with post-Heideggerian philosophy, is forthcoming with Columbia University Press.

Anat Tzur Mahalel, PhD is a clinical psychologist Bucerius Institute, University of Haifa; candidate for the Israel Psychoanalytic Society; research associate, Bucerius Institute, University of Haifa; and staff member, Advanced Program for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Tel Aviv University. Her major

areas of interest are the history of psychoanalysis; the relation of psychoanalysis to literature