Contributors

Contributors JOHN H. ASTINGTON is associate professor, Department of English, University of Toronto, and a fonner editor of Modern Drama. His principal research interests are in the theatrical and cultural hisrory of the Renaissance; Ibsen and Stoppard he knows best as a teacher and an actor. FREDRIC BERG is assistant professor of English and speech at Cazenovia College and a member of Actors' Equity. His publications include articles on theatre and a book on speec~. He has recently completed Shaw and Superman, a book which studies the development of dramatic structure in Shaw's early plays. CARL CAULFIELD is a playwright and lecturer in drama at the University of Newcastle. Australia. He was recently writer on a bilingual community project, Diavo!ozoppo The Con Artist, with PACT Youth and Experimental Theatre and FILEF (The Federation of Italian Migrant Workers and Their Families). His play, The Human Behan, is in development with the Australian National Playwrights' Centre. ERNEST G. GRIFAN is professor emeritus at York University, Toronto. He has published critical articles in a variety of journals. and during its period of pUblication was an editor of Modernist Studies: Literature and Culture 1920-40. He has written a book on the British critic John Middleton Murry, and edited a collection of essays on Eugene O'Neill. His essay "O'Neill and the Tragedy of Culture" appeared in Modern Drama, March, 1988. JOSE LANTERS is assistant professor of classics at the University of Oklahoma. Her publications include Missed Understandings: A Study of Stage Adaptations 0/ the Works of James Joyce (1988) and articles on Irish fiction and drama which have appeared in a variety of journals. She is currently working on a book-length study of twentieth-century Irish satire. Modern Drama, 36 (1993) 589 590 Contributors ERIC P. LEVY is associate professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Beckett and the Voice of Species (1980) as well as articles on Beckett, Lawrence. Eliot, and Christology. He is working on a book offering new interpretations of seven literary texts. JEROME MAZZARO is professor of Italian and comparative literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of several books of criticism, including The Figure ofDante (1981). His articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as Comparative Drama, Essays in Literature, the Sewanee Review, the Narion, and the New Republic. He is currently working on a new essay on Pirandello's I gigami della montagna. TONY MITCHELL lectures in performance studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the author of Dario Fo: People's CalirI Jester, File on Bremon and File on Dario Fa. BENILDE MONTGOMERY is assistant professor of drama and dance at Dowling CoJlege, Oakdale, New York. His other drama criticism includes essays on Lady Gregory and Dylan Thomas. He is currently exploring the impact of early American drama on the development of the abolitional movement in the nineteenth century. NINA DA VINCI NICHOLS is associate professor of English at Rutgers University, specializing in drama, and associate editor of Annals ofScholarship. Her publications include essays on Shakespeare, Milton, Jonson, Racine, Ibsen, and Pirandello; a book of criticism, On Character in Modern Drama (1993); and a forthcoming book, Pirandello as Filmmaker. DAVID SKEELE is assistant professor of theatre at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania . He is currently completing work on a doctorate in theatre and performance studies at the University of Pittsburgh, writing a dissertation which 'examines the critical and theatrical history of Shakespeare's Pericles in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ...