Jean-Christophe Mayer

**Jean-Christophe Mayer** is a Research Professor employed by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is also a member of the Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-classical Age and the Enlightenment (IRCL) at Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier. He is the author of *Shakespeare’s Hybrid Faith—History, Religion and the Stage* (Palgrave, 2006) and of *Shakespeare et la postmodernité: Essais sur l’Auteur, le Religieux, l’Histoire et le Lecteur* (Peter Lang 2012). He has edited *Breaking the Silence on the Succession: A Sourcebook of Manuscripts and Rare Texts* (Montpellier UP, 2003) and has published an edition and translation of Henry Porter’s *Two Angry Women of Abington* (Pléiade, Gallimard, 2010). He has also edited several collections of essays, including most recently *Representing France and the French in Early Modern English Drama* (U of Delaware Press, 2008) and *Shakespearean Configurations* (*Early Modern Literary Studies*, Special Issue 21). He is co-general editor of the journal *Cahiers Élisabéthains* and was Barbara Mowat - Andrew W. Mellon long-term fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C (2010-11) and short-term fellow at the Huntington Library (2014). His work is also supported by research and travel grants from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS; grants in 2013, 2016 and 2023). Since 2017, he is an expert for the European Commission in the field of humanities. His latest monograph is entitled *Shakespeare’s Early Readers: A Cultural History from 1590 to 1800* (Cambridge University Press, 2018.) He is now working on a new project provisionally entitled "Handwriting and the English Imagination from 1600 to 1800", which explores how early modern women and men imagined handwriting within the context of the rise of the printed book.