Milla Cozart Riggio is the James J.Goodwin Professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Her
publications and research interests focus on Carnival, medieval drama and Shakespeare and her essays and reviews
have appeared in a variety of journals, including The Shakespeare Quarterly and TDR. She is the editor of The Wisdom
Symposium, Ta'ziyeh: Ritual and Drama in Iran and Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance. She has also worked
as a consultant to the National Carnival Commission of Trinidad and Tobago and in 1999 held a government-appointed
post on the World Conference on Carnival organising committee in Trinidad.