Dr. Alison Shell is based at University College London. Formerly Professor of English at Durham, she now runs UCL English Department's MA in English: Shakespeare in History. She is an editor and critic, reviewing for the Times Literary Supplement, the Church Times and a number of academic journals. Principal works include: "Catholicism, Controversy, and the English Literary Imagination, 1558-1660" (1999), "Oral Culture and Catholicism in Early Modern England" (2007), " "and "Shakespeare And Religion" (2011).