Sirbulescu, Emil, University of Craiova, Romania, and Emil Sirbulescu teaches English and American literature at the Univer-sity of Craiova, Romania. His special interests include Shakespeare and the Renaissance, the African American Novel, and Literatures in English. He has published extensively in the field of Shakespearean Studies, and is an active member of the International Shakespeare Association, and the European Shake-speare Research Association. Prof. Sirbulescu is also a literary translator, having translated novels by Thackeray, Kipling, Charlotte M. Yonge, Ursula LeGuin and Kim Stanley Robinson.