Todd Landon Barnes is an Assistant Professor of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He has published articles on Shakespeare in performance in Shakespeare Bulletin, and he recently contributed an article to Ayanna Thompson and Scott L. Newstok's Weyward Macbeths: Intersections of Race and Performance (Palgrave, 2009). He is a dramaturg for the African-American Shakespeare Company in San Francisco. He holds a PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley.