Walter S. H. Lim received his BA (Distinction), MA, and PhD from the University of Toronto (Canada). He is a faculty member in the Department of English, Linguistics & Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and has served as the chair of Literature and of Theatre Studies in the Department. He has a strong interest in Shakespeare and Milton as well as in the relationship between theological conviction and political expression in Early Modern England. Lim is also interested in the relationship between Asian American literature, diaspora, and globalization. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Theater of Religious Conviction in Early Modern England (2023); Narratives of Diaspora: Representations of Asia in Chinese American Literature (2013); John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism (2006); and The Arts of Empire: The Poetics of Colonialism from Ralegh to Milton (1998). He also coedited the collection The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia (2010). Lim is currently working on a book project on the cultural politics of the Anglophone Chinese diaspora, and another on the Global Renaissance.