Robert Matz
Robert Matz is Professor of English and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, where he teaches
courses on Shakespeare and on Renaissance Literature. He
graduated summa cum laude in English and with distinction in all
subjects from Cornell University in 1986. He received his PhD
in English and American Literature, with a focus on English Renaissance
Literature, from The Johns Hopkins University in 1993. He is
also the author of Defending
Literature in Early Modern England: Renaissance Literary Theory in
Social Context (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and of
articles on Shakespeare and on sixteenth-century poetry. He serves on
the Central Executive Committee of the Folger Shakespeare Institute
and is currently editing a set of English Renaissance guides
to married life. Occasionally he turns his hand to writing
sonnets.