Contributors

Contributors H. PORTER ABBOTT is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Diary Fiction: Writing as Action and The Fiction of Samuel Beckell: Form and Effect. NORMAND BERLIN. Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, has published four books (The Base String: The Underworld in Elizabethan Drama, Thomas Sackville, The Secret Cause: A Discussion of Tragedy, and Eugene o'Nei/f) , has edited a Casebook for Macmillan of London, Eugene O'Neill: Three Plays, and has written numerous articles ranging from medieval poetty to modern film . He is currently completing a book entitled O'Neill's Shakespeare. KURT EISEN, Assistant Professor of English at Tennessee Technological University, is at work on a book-length study of novelization and melodrama in O'Neill's plays. WILLIAM HUTCHINGS is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama :H Binningham and the editor of David Storey: A Casebook, forthcoming from Garland Press. His book, The Plays oj David Storey: A Thematic Study. was published by Southern lllinois University Press in 1988; and he is currently completing a book on Alan Sillitoe's fiction. HELENE KEYSSAR teaches drama at the University of California, La Jolla, and is the author of The Curtain and the Veil: Strategies in Black Drama (1981) and Feminist Theatre (1984). Her most recent book, New Roots for the Nation: The Films ojRobert Altman, will be published this spring by Oxford University Press. ANTHONY KUBIAK, an Assistant Professor of English at Harvard, has published articles on drama in Theatre Joumal, Journal oj Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Comparative Drama. His book, Stages of Ten'or , will be published in the fall of 1991 by Indiana University Press. Contributors JUDITH GRAVES Mll..LER teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She will be bringing out with Christiane Makward an anthology of plays by French and Francophone women writers: Out ofBounds: Women's Plays from the French with the University of Michigan Press in the fall of 1991 . Previous publications include Theater and Revolution in France since 1968 (French Forum, 1977), Frallfoise Sagan (O.K. Hajj, 1987), and numerous articles on French theatre. JOYCE CAROL OATES, a member of the faculty of Princeton University, is a prolific novelist, playwright, and essayist. She is currently adapting her novel Because It Is Bitter, and Because II Is My Heart for the screen. Al\'NE PAOLUCCI, Chair of English at St. John's University, Jamaica, NY, is President of the Pirandel10 Society of America. She has published widely on many aspects of modern drama (particularly on the theatre of Pirandello and Albee), and is also an award-winning playwright, poet, and short story writer. LlLlANE PAPIN is an Assistant Professor of French at Rutgers University, Camden, and has worked as an actress and director in the theatre. She is the author of L'autre scene: Ie thei'itre de Marguerite DlIras (1988). ANN WILSON is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Drama, University of Guelph, Ontario. She serves as an associate editor of Essays ill Theatre and of Carladiall Theatre Review. She is currently working on a book on theatrical responses to Margaret Thatcher's England. TOBY SILVERMAN ZINMAN is Professor of English at the Universi.ty of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is editor of David Rabe: A Casebook (Garland, 1991), and her work on contemporary fiction and drama has recently appeared in Theatre Journal, Art alld Academe, and Modern Fiction Studies, as well as in several new collections of essays. She writes frequently for American Theatre magazine, and directs the Summer Seminar for School Teachers in "Samuel Beckett's Plays" for the National Endowment for the Humanities. ...