Nizar Zouidi is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Gafsa, Tunisia, and Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. His research focuses on character studies in Renaissance drama and across diverse literary periods and genres. He has contributed to The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature (2021) and Woke Shakespeare (2024), and has edited collections on villainy in Anglophone literature (2021) and monarchs in world literature and cinema (2023). Nizar is an active participant in international scholarly conferences.