Contributors
- Contributors
Derek B. Alwes is an Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University, Newark, where he teaches Renaissance and other literatures. He is the author of Sons and Authors in Elizabethan England (University of Delaware Press, 2004), which is a study of the works of John Lyly, Philip Sidney, and Robert Greene, as well as several articles on Renaissance literature. He is currently working on a book project on Jacobean city comedies, of which the current article is intended to become a part.
Meredith Skura is the Libby Shearn Moody Professor of English at Rice University. She is the author of Literary Criticism and the Psychoanalytic Process (1981), Shakespeare the Actor and the Purposes of Playing (1993), and Tudor Autobiography: Listening for Inwardness (2008), as well as many articles about Renaissance texts.
Miriam M. Chirico is an Associate Professor at Eastern Connecticut State University, in Willimantic, where she teaches dramatic literature. She received her PhD from Emory University and a MA in Text and Performance from the University of London. She has written on twentieth-century authors from G. B. Shaw and Eugene O’Neill to more contemporary playwrights such as Wendy Wasserstein, Beth Henley, John Leguizamo, and José Rivera and is currently working on a book-length project about comedy and the dissolution of identity.
Carol Schafer is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Women’s Studies at the Beaver campus of the Pennsylvania State University outside of Pittsburgh. She is an active director and playwright who directs annually for the Pittsburgh New Works Festival. A script that she coauthored, The Other Side of the River, was based on real-life stories of domestic violence in the local community and was produced on area stages including that of the Warhol Museum. It was later taped for television and broadcast on several Pennsylvania PBS-affiliated stations. [End Page 265]
Glenn Odom received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine, in 2007 in comparative literature. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whitman College in Washington. Glenn Odom has published on speech act theory in “Finding the Zumbah: An Analysis of Infelicity in Speech Acts in Literature,” in Provocations to Reading, ed. Barbara Cohen (Fordham University Press, 2006). He has also published “Becoming Roman / Coming to be Criminal: Pressurized Belongings and the Coding of Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationality in Peele & Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus,” chapter coauthored with Bryan Reynolds in Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Fugitive Explorations by Bryan Reynolds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). In addition to scholarly publication, Professor Odom is an active member of various theatrical organizations where he acts, directs, and works as a dramaturg. [End Page 266]
