Contributors

Contributors JANICE BERKOWITZ is Associate Professor of French at Grinnell College, where she teaches courses on Modem French Drama and Contemporary French Culture. She is the author of articles and reviews in both of these areas, having contributed to SubStance, French Forum, Contemporary French Civilization, French Review, and Theatre Survey: and she is currently writing a book on trends in French Theatre since 1968. BERT CARDULLO is a Teaching Fellow at the Yale University School of Drama, where he is completing his doctorate in dramatic literature and criticism. His essays on film and drama have appeared in Tennessee Williams: A Tribute, Germanic Review, Film Criticism, Theater, and New Orleans Review, among other publications. Mr. Cardulla has served as dramaturge on numerous productions at Cornell, Tulane, and Yale. UNA CHAUDHURI is Assistant Professor ofEnglish and Dramatic Literature at New York University, where she teaches courses in British Drama, Shakespeare, Drama in Perfonnance and the History of Drama and Theatre. She has just completed a semiotic study of Jean Genet's drama to be published by OMI Research Press, and is now working on a study of the role of the spectator in drama. PATRICIA A. CLANCY is Senior Lecturer in the Department of French, University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research and publications have been principally in the field of Eighteenth Century Studies: literary history, women's education, women'5 journalism, children's literature. She has turned her attention to drama recently and is working currently on the theatre of Mme. de Genlis and on an edition of Ionesco's Machett. DAVID EDNEY is Associate Professor ofFrench at the University of Saskatchewan. He is also an actor and director, and is currently working on English translations of plays by Moli~re and other French authors. GAIL FINNEY is Assistant Professor of German at Harvard University, where she also teaches Comparative Literature. She has published articles on late eighteenth- to early twentieth-century Gennan, French, and English literature, and a book entitled The Counterfeit Idyll: The Garden Ideal and Social Reality in Nineteenth~Century Fiction (1984). She is currently working on a study of the unity ofturn-of~the-century European drama. Contributors DEBORAH B. GAENSBAUER, Associate Professor of Modem Languages (French and Spanish), is Chairperson of the Modem Language Department at Regis College in Denver, Colorado. She has written and presented papers on Duras, Aragon, [onesco, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas Jefferson in Revolutionary Paris. KATHY 1. GENTILE, a Graduate Teaching Fel10w at the University of Oregon, is preparing a Ph.D. dissertation on twentieth-century British fiction. BARRY JORDANis Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Birmingham, England. He has published articles on the contemporary Spanish novel and theatre as weB as on literary theory. He is currently preparing a book dealing with the conditions ofemergence of the Spanish "novela social" of the 19505. KAREN LAUGHLIN is Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University, where she teaches modem drama, dramatic writing, contemporary literature, and twentiethcentury humanities. A comparatist specializing in modem drama and literary theory, she is currently working on a book about Scenic Storytelling, which examines various functions of inset narratives in post-World-War-ll drama. ANTONI LIBERA, who lives in Warsaw, is a literary critic and a translator of Beckett's works into Polish. He bas edited two special issues ofthe monthly review Literatura na fwiecie devoted to Beckett (1975, 1981), and a volume of Beckett's late prose, Pismo prozq (1982). He has written a number of essays on modem Polish literature, among them studies of Gombrowicz, Mrozek, and Herbert. He has also staged some of Beckett's plays in the theatre, mainly in the Warsaw Drama School, where he was Visiting Professor. LOUISE FIBER LUCE is Professor of French and Associate Provost at Miami University. Her research on the French novel and theatre of the nineteenth century has appeared in French Review, French Forum, 20th Century Spanish Studies and Romance Notes. She is coeditor of Toward Internationalism: Readings in Cross-Cultural Communication (1979), and is currently working on a revised edition ofthat text. She is consultant in the field of cross-cultural communication in the Foreign Language curriculum. She spoke recently on "Socialist Politics and the...