Contributors

Contributors ELIN DIAMOND is Professor of English at Rutgers University. She is the author of Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theater (Routledge, 1997) and Pinter~ Comic Play (Bucknell, 1985) and editor of Performance and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 1996). Her essays on performance and feminist theory have appeared in Theatre Journal, ELH, Discourse, TDR, Modern Drama, Kenyon Review, Cahiers Renaud-Barrault, Art And Cinema, Maska, and anthologies in the United States, Europe, and India. ALAN FILEWOD is Professor of Drama in the School of Literatures and Performance Studies in English at the University of Guelph, where he researches political and postcolonial theatre. His books include Collective Encounters: Documentary Theatre in English Canada; three anthologies of Canadian drama; and, with David Watt, Workers' Playtime: Theatre and the Labour Movement since 1970 (Sydney: Currency Press, 2001). His most recent work, Performing 'Canada': The Nation Enacted in the Imagined Theatre, is forthcoming as a monograph published by Textual Studies in Canada. He is an editor of Canadian Theatre Review and former president of the Association for Canadian Theatre Research. ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE was a professor of modern German literature, comparative literature, and theatre research at the universities of Frankfurt-am-Main, Bayreuth, and Mainz from 1973 to 1996. Since April 1996 she has been Professor of Theatre Research at the Free University of Berlin; from 1995 to 1999 she was president of the International Federation of Theatre Research. Her numerous publications (twenty books and more than 100 essays in scientific periodicals, handbooks, journals, and essay collections) include The Semiotics ofTheatre (1992), The Show and the Gaze of Theatre (1997), and, most recently, Das eigene und das fremde Theater (1999); Theater im ProzeJ3 Modern Drama, 44:1 (Spring 2001) 130 Contributors 131 der Zivilisation. Zur Geschichte von Korper-Inszenierungen (2000); Aestherische Erfahrung. Das Semiotische und das Perfonnative (2001); and History ofEuropean Drama and Theatre (Routledge, 2002). SHANNON JACKSON is an associate professor in the departments of Rhetoric and of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She published Lines ofActivity, a study of performance and social change at Chicago's Hull-House settlement, in 2000 and has also published and performed in numerous journals. theatres, collections, universities. and art galleries in the United States. She is presently completing a second book, entitled Disciplining Performance: Institutional Genealogies ill the Ans and Humanities, for Cambridge University Press. JOSEPHINE LEE is an associate professor of English at the University ofMinnesota . Her Perfonning Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage was published by Temple University Press in 1997. She is co-editor of Re/collecting Early Asian America: Readings in Culture History, an interdisciplinary collection of essays, to be published by Temple University Press. She has written numerous essays on modern and contemporary American and British theatre and is currently completing a book on racial politics and contemporary American theatre. MICHAEL SIDNELL is Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto; sometime Director of the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, where he still teaches; and sometime Director of Graduate Studies in English at the University of Toronto. His books include Dances ofDeath: The Group Theatre ofLondon in the Thirties (Faber, 1984) and Yeats: Poetry and Poetics (Macmillan, 1991). He has also edited two volumes of Yeats's dramatic manuscripts and is a contributing editor to the Collected Works of WB. Yeats, now in progress, and to the Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Plays (Princeton, 1988), as well as the editor of the four-volume series Sources ofDramatic Theory, of which the two first volumes have been published. He is the author of many articles on theatre , drama, poetry, and kindred subjects. ...