Contributors

Contributors JOSEPH DEVLIN is currently an instructor of modem English literature at Virginia Commonweahh University. He holds a doctorate from Columbia University and has published essays on Brian O'Nolan, 1.M. Synge and Somerville and Ross. He is currently working on a book entitled Irony Gnd Empire: The Irish Satirical Tradition. JON ERICKSON is Associate Professor of Drama in the English Department at Ohio State University. He has published articles on drama and performance in Boundary 2, Discourse , Theatre Journal, Journal 0/Dramatic Theory & Criticism and elsewhere. His book The Fate 0/ the Object: From Modern Object to Postmodern Sign iii Pelformance , Art and Poetry was published in 1995 by University of Michigan Press. DAVID S. GEORGE is a theatre director who has worked in both the United States and Brazil. He is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Lake Forest College, Illinois, and the author of three books on Brazilian theatre. He has received several grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. HARRY J. KUOSHO is Assistant Professor of Modem Languages and Cinema Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. LAURIE KAPLAN is an Associate Professor of English at Goucher College, where she teaches interdisciplinary courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature and history, including a course in postcolonial drama and fiction. She has published articles on Jane Austen and medicine, reviews, essays and short fiction. Her current project concerns women serving on the Western Front in 1917 during the Third Battle of Yprcs (Passchendaele). She is the new Editor of Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal. LORRAINE MARKOTIC recently held a SSHRC fellowship at the University of Vienna Modem Drama, 41 (1998) 507 508 CONTRIBUTORS and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Departments of English and Gennan at the University of Calgary. She has published in the areas of feminist theory, psychoanalysis , German and French philosophy and literary theory. BRIAN POCKNELL holds a jOint appointment in the French Department and the School of Art, Drama and Music at McMaster University, Hamilton. Ontario. A former Chair of Drama, he is currently writing a book on contemporary theatre. ANNETTE 1. SADDIK holds a PhD from Rutgers University (I99S) and is now an Assistant Professor of Drama and Twentieth-Century Literature in the Department of English at Eastern Michigan University. Her book on the critical reception of Tennessee Williams's later plays, The Politics of Reputation, is forthcoming in December 1998, and her current project focuses on the performance of American identity, using the works of David Mamet and Sam Shepard in conjunction with the very different performative culture of rap music as a new, socially relevant - yet simultaneously playful- American "drama." P. JANE SPLAWN is an independent scholar who has taught courses in African-American literature, Drama, Women's Studies and American literature at Purdue University. She is currently completing a study titled Black Women's Drama/Black Women's Ritual: Ritual, Theory, and Performance in Plays by Contemporary Black Women Dramatists. RICHARD WATTENBERG is an Associate Professor in Theater Arts at Portland State University . He has published essays on American theatre in Theatre Annual, Themes in Drama, Journal of American Culture, Western American Literature, The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Modern Drama and Essays in Theatre. STUART YOUNG lectures in Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Auckland. He has written on Chekhov and the British stage, contemporary gay/queer British drama and theatre and the representation of masculinity in New Zealand drama. ...