Todd Andrew Borlik

is Teaching Professor at Purdue University–Indianapolis. He is the author of three books and around thirty articles and book chapters. His work has appeared in academic journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Bulletin, and English Literary Renaissance. His piece on The Tempest and the draining of the fens has been ranked among the most-read articles in the Shakespeare journal. Other recent publications have explored cyberpunk Hamlets, Cleopatra and Renaissance snake handlers, and Friar Bacon’s fantasy of engirdling England in a wall of brass. His most recent monograph Shakespeare Beyond the Green World examines how Shakespeare’s late play intervene in environmental policy disputes at the Jacobean court. He is currently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and the Natural World and collections on The Winter’s Tale and Early Modern Witch Plays.