Jody Enders, a prize-winning theater historian, is the author of five books, including The Medieval Theater of Cruelty (Cornell, 1999) and Murder by Accident: Theatre, Medievalism, and Critical Intentions (Chicago, 2009). Her newest book is The Farce of the Fart and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English (Penn, 2011), about which Terry Jones of Monty Python said: "Scurrilous, sexy, stupid, satirical, scatological, side-splitting, and probably something else beginning with 's."