Emily Winerock is an adjunct professor in Dance at Point Park University, co-director of the Shakespeare and Dance Project, and co-chair of the Early Dance Working Group of the Dance Studies Association. Her research focuses on the practices and politics of 16th- and 17th-century dance onstage and off. She holds degrees from Princeton University, the University of Sussex, and the University of Toronto, and her publications include essays in Journal of the Northern Renaissance, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Borrowers and Lenders, and Dance Chronicle, as well as chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, Playthings in Early Modernity, The Sacralization of Space and Behavior in the Early Modern World, and Worth and Repute: Valuing Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. She is currently working on a monograph tentatively entitled Reformation and Revelry: Dance in Early Modern England, 1558-1642.