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Nicole Sheriko is an Assistant Professor of English at Yale University, specializing in Renaissance literature, theater history and material culture. She holds a BA from Northwestern, a PhD from Rutgers, and was previously the A H Lloyd Junior Research Fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Her research considers Renaissance entertainment culture, especially popular performance, and she is completing a book on early English puppet theater. Up next is a book on magic and medicine on the popular stage.

She has published on a wide range of theater topics including puppetry, clowning, stage machinery, court masques, the medieval Vice, Ben Jonson, Folly, contemporary Shakespeare production, drama pedagogy, and nineteenth-century toy theater (see Publications). Her digital editing work on EEBO-TCP texts is now housed in the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Digital Anthology of Early Modern English Drama. She has reviewed books on theater history for Theatre Survey and Early Theatre. Her research has been recognized by grants from the ACLS, Huntington Library, Mellon Foundation, Renaissance Society of America, and Folger Shakespeare Library. She is a member of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society‘s Council and Early Theatre‘s Advisory Board.

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