Rebecca Totaro is Associate Dean of Curriculum and Assessment and Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University. A book series editor for Kent State University Press, Totaro has served as an invited to speaker on bubonic plague at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and at the Folger Shakespeare Library, where she has held a fellowship. The most recently published of her six books is Care and Contagion in Shakespeare’s Changing World, co-edited with Darryl Chalk.