Contributors

Contributors ROSEMARIE K. BANK has published in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Nineteenth-CentUlY Theatre (Research), Theatre History Studies, Essays in Theatre, Theatre Research International, and The Journal ofDramatic Theory and Criticism, and in the Anthologies Women in American Theatre; Feminist Rereadings of Modern American Drama, The American Stage. Critical Theory and Performance, Performing America, and Of Borders and Thresholds. She is the author of Theatre Culture in America, 1825- 1860 (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Immediate Past Editor of Theatre Survey, and Professor of Theatre and Coordinator of Graduate Studies at Kent State University. SEAN CARNEY is an Assistant Professor of Drama and Theatre in the Department of English at McGill University. His essays have appeared in Theatre Journal and Essays in Theatre/Etudes theatrales, and are forthcoming in Theatre Survey and the Journal of Dramatic The01Y and Criticism. His book Brecht and Critical Theory: Dialectics and ContemporGlY Aesthetics will be published by Routledge in 2005. RYAN M. CLAYCOMB is an Assistant Professor of Writing at George Washington University in Washington DC. His articles on the intersections of gender, narrative, and theatre have appeared in Journal ofDramatic TlzeOlY and Criticism and Text and Presentation. He is currently at work on a book on life writing in contemporary feminist drama and performance. MARTIN HARRIES is Associate Professor of English at New York University and the author of Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx. Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment (Stanford University Press, 2000). He has published in New German Critique, The Yale Jou/'llol ofCriticism, The Chronicle Modem Drama, 47:3 (Fall 2004) 558 559 CONTRIBUTORS of Higher Education, and Theatre Journal. He is completing a second book, Lot's Wife: Looking Back at Disaster in the Twentieth Century, with chapters on Artaud, film noir, and Anselm Kiefer. J UDE MECHE is Assistant Professor of English at Missouri Southern State University . His specialties include Modem Drama and Irish Literature. He has previously published on Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, and Vaclav Havel. IRA B. NADEL is Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia, as well as the author of Biography: Fiction , Fact and Form (1989), Joyce and the Jews (1984), Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen (1996), Double Act: A Life of Tom Stoppard (2002), and Ezra Pound: A Literary Life (2004). He is currently researching a life of David Mamel. MICHAEL R. SCHIAVI is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of ESL at New York Institute of Technology's Manhattan Campus. His work has appeared recently in College Literature, New England Theatre Journal, Modern Language Studies, and The Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He has also published articles in Contemporary Gay Poets and Playwrights (Greenwood ), Tennessee Williams: A Casebook (Routledge), and The Brooklyn Film (McFarland). HANNA SCOLNICOV is Associate Professor in Theatre Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Tel-Aviv University. She is the author of Experiments in Stage Satire (on Ben Jonson) and Woman's Theatrical Space. She has edited, with Peter Holland, The Play Olll ofContext and Reading Plays and published a study of and co-translated into Hebrew, Adam de la Halle's Le Jeu de lafeuillee. She has published articles on Elizabethan theatre, intertextuality, word and image, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Stoppard, Pinter, and others. BRUCE WYSE received his PhD from the University of Toronto and currently teaches in the English departments of Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Guelph. ...