Contributors

Contributors SUSANNE ARNDT is currently pursuing her MA degree in English at the University of New Orleans. She has also studied American Literature, German, and Sociology at the University of Hamburg, Germany. PENNY FARFAN is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Regina. She has published articles in Theatre Journal, Text and Pe1formance Quarterly, and Canadian Theatre Review, and has work forthcoming in Woolf Studies Annual. THOMAS GOGGANS is a student in the PhD Program at the University of Mississippi . His current project deals with eighteenth-century public spectacle and the carnivalesque in the plays of David Garrick. K. JEEVAN KUMAR is a Lecturer in English at Henry Baker College, Mahatma Gandhi University, India. He specializes in twentieth-century theatre, especially the Theatre of the Absurd. He is currently at work on a book on the later drama of Beckett. PHILIP C. KOLIN, Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi , is the founding co-editor of Studies in American Drama, 1945-Present. He has edited Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire: Essays in Critical Pluralism and Tennessee Williams: A Guide to Scholarship and Performance . He is also preparing the volume on A Streetcar Named Desire for the Cambridge University Press series Plays in Performance. JUDE R. MECHE, currently a graduate assistaDt at Texas A and M University, is studying toward a PhD in English. He is the author of Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy. Modern Drama, 40 (1997) 563 Contributors SUSANA REDONDO completed her PhD in Drama at the University of Toronto, with a thesis entitled "The Female Spectator as Subject in Contemporary British Drama." Her fields of specialization are contemporary drama and theatre, the history and theories of the theatre, and feminist and film theories. She currently teaches at the Department of English at George Mason University (Virginia). . MICHAEL SELMON is an Associate Professor of English at Alma College, Michigan, where he teaches drama and modem British literature. His past articles include a study of O'Neill's More Stately Mansions as well as discussions of plays by Caryl Churchill and T.S. Eliot. P. JANE SPLAWN is a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. JOANNE TOMPKINS is a Lecturer in English and Drama at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of numerous articles on postcolonial theatre, and co-author (with Helen Gilbert) of Post-colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics. She recently guest edited a special issue of Australasian Drama Studies on Canadian theatre. Her current research project examines the intersections of intercultural and feminist theories and theatres. ...