Robert N. Watson is Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA, mainly teaching Shakespeare and 17th century poetry. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Oxford Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Ariel, and dozens of other print and online journals. His books include the ecocritical Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance, winner of multiple awards; the interdisciplinary Cultural Evolution and its Discontents: Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure; The Rest is Silence: Death as Annihilation in the English Renaissance; Ben Jonson's Parodic Strategy: Literary Imperialism in the Comedies; Shakespeare and the Hazards of Ambition; and the film-studies book Throne of Blood, as well as multiple editions of Early Modern drama. He especially loves his family, his dogs, playing pick-up soccer, and teaching. For more information, see https://english.ucla.edu/people-faculty/watson-robert-n/