Niels Herold is Professor of English at Oakland University where he teaches the literature of Early Modern England. His published work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly, The Journal of Narrative Technique, Shakespeare Yearbook, Shakespeare in the Classroom, The Oakland Journal, The Ohio Valley Shakespeare Journal, and Shakespeare Quarterly. An essay about the Shakespeare Behind Bars program at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in Kentucky can be found in a collection titled Native Shakespeares. In 2014, Palgrave Macmillan brought out his monograph, Prison Shakespeare and the Purpose of Performance, which describes how the Shakespeare Behind Bars prison theatre program re-animates certain tropes, conditions, and representational modes of the early modern theatre. His work in progress is about two 2015 productions of Pericles (at Luther Luckett and at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Ont.), which reads tragi-comic scenes of social and psychic contamination in the context of the Larry Nassar sentencing courtroom dramas, which Herold argues are Shakespearean in speech act and structure.