Contributors
- Contributors
David K. Anderson is an associate professor in the University of Oklahoma English department where he specializes in Renaissance literature. His first book, Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England (Routledge) was published in 2014. His current book, "Shakespeare BC," is about the ethical implications of the pre-Christian setting of Shakespeare's Greco-Roman plays.
William Boles, Professor of Dramatic Literature and Film in the English Department at Rollins College, is the author of The Argumentative Theatre of Joe Penhall (McFarland, 2011) and Understanding David Henry Hwang (University of South Carolina Press, 2013). He is a co-founder of the David Henry Hwang Society and currently serves as the Director of the Comparative Drama Conference.
Daria Chernysheva holds a BA from Amherst College, where her honors thesis was awarded the Ralph Waldo Rice Prize and laid the groundwork for her essay in Comparative Drama. Her translation of a nineteenth-century Russian travel memoir is to be published by Amherst College Press. She has received the Fulbright Award to pursue an MA in translation at the University of Warwick in 2017–18.
Laurie Ellinghausen is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. She is the author of Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567–1667 (Ashgate, 2008) and Pirates, Traitors, and Apostates: Renegade Identities in Early Modern English Writing (forthcoming from University of Toronto Press). She also is the editor of Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's History Plays (MLA Publications, 2017). Her current projects include a study of maritime labor in early modern English drama.
K. M. Newton is Professor of English (Emeritus) at University of Dundee, Scotland. Among his more recent publications are Modern Literature and the Tragic (Edinburgh University Press 2008), Modernizing George Eliot (Bloomsbury Press 2011), and the Introduction to Oxford World's Classics new edition of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (2014). [End Page 250]
Alexander Pettit is Professor of English, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and affiliated faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Texas. His essays on modern drama have appeared in Modern Language Quarterly, Philological Quarterly, Studies in American Indian Literatures, The Eugene O'Neill Review, and other journals.
Min Tian holds a PhD in theatre history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. He has taught as Associate Professor at the Central Academy of Drama and currently works at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage: Chinese Theatre Placed and Displaced (Palgrave, 2012) and The Poetics of Difference and Displacement: Twentieth-Century Chinese-Western Intercultural Theatre (Hong Kong University Press, 2008).
Anne Varty is Professor of Victorian Literature in the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, and author of Children and Theatre in Victorian Britain: All Work and No Play (Palgrave, 2008). Her current research is on contemporary women's poetry. [End Page 251]
