Carol Mejia LaPerle is Professor and Honors Advisor for the English Department of Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. In addition to publishing on topics related to Renaissance theatre and contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare, she teaches and writes about renaissance rhetoric, philosophies of will, theories of affect, and constructions of race and gender in early modern culture. Her projects have been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ohio Humanities, The National Humanities Center, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. She is the editor of the collection of essays entitled Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature and Oxford Bibliography’s entry on Race in the Renaissance and Reformation. Her monograph-in-progress, Shakespearean Ill-Will: Racialized Volition in the Social Contract, examines philosophies of will and formations of race.