Irish Theater in America: Essays on Irish Theatrical Diaspora

Contributors

v i i  Contributors christopher berchild is an assistant professor in the Department of Theater at Indiana State University, where he teaches theater history, play analysis, theater theory, and directing and serves as advisor for the graduate (MA) program. He has served as artistic director for the Claremont School of Theatre Arts at Pomona College in California for four years, edited TheatreForum (an international journal for theater studies), and has worked for DeafWest Theater for the Deaf in Los Angeles. joan fitzpatrick dean is Curators Distinguished Professor and professor of English, University of Missouri, Kansas City. Her books include Dancing at Lughnasa (Cork University Press) and Riot and Great Anger: Stage Censorship in Twentieth-Century Ireland (University of Wisconsin Press). claire gleitm an is associate professor and chair in the Department of English at Ithaca College in New York, where she teaches dramatic literature. Most recently, her work has been included in The Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama (Blackwell); Out of History: Essays on the Writings of Sebastian Barry (Catholic University of America Press); and The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama. nicholas grene is professor of English literature at Trinity College Dublin and the founding chair of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora project. He has published widely on Irish drama and on Shakespeare, his recent books including The Politics of Irish Drama (Cambridge University Press), Shakespeare’s Serial History Plays (Cambridge University Press) and (co-edited with Chris Morash) Irish Theatre on Tour: Irish Theatrical Diaspora Series 1 (Carysfort Press). viii | c o n t r i b u t o r s john p. harrington is dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy, New York. He is the author of The Irish Beckett, The Irish Play on the New York Stage, and The Life of the Neighborhood Playhouse on Grand Street. Harrington is also editor of the Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama anthology in the Norton Critical Editions series. peter kuch is the inaugural Eamon Cleary Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Otago, Dunedin. Former convenor of Irish studies at the University of New South Wales, he has been a visiting fellow at Trinity College Dublin and at the Humanities Research Centre, Canberra. patrick lonergan lectures in English at National University of Ireland, Galway. He writes about theater in the west of Ireland for the Irish Times, is reviews editor of Irish Theatre Magazine, and is an officer of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. He has lectured on Irish drama at many venues, including the Royal Irish Academy, the Edinburgh International Festival, and the Notre Dame Irish Seminar. lucy mcdiar mid, Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English at Montclair State, was a fellow of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library for the academic year 2005–6. While at the Cullman Center, she completed a study of “the peacock dinner” (18 January 1914), the dinner arranged by Yeats, Pound, and Lady Gregory in honor of the poet and anti-imperialist Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Her essay on that topic, “A Box for Wilfrid Blunt,” appeared in the January 2005 issue of PMLA. Her book The Irish Art of Controversy was published by Cornell University Press in 2006. Her other books include Auden’s Apologies for Poetry (Princeton), Saving Civilization: Yeats, Eliot, and Auden Between the Wars (Cambridge), Lady Gregory: Selected Writings, edited with Maureen Waters (Penguin), and High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture 1889–1939, edited with Maria DiBattista (Oxford). dierdre mcfeely is completing a Ph.D. at Trinity College Dublin on the politics of Dion Boucicault’s Irish plays. christina hunt m ahony is the director of the Center of Irish Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She is the Contributors | ix author of Contemporary Irish Literature: Transforming Tradition and the editor of Out of History: Essays on the Writings of Sebastian Barry and The Future of Irish Studies: Report of the Irish Forum, published in 2006. mick moloney, New York University Global Distinguished Professor of Music, is the author of Far From the Shamrock Shore: The Story of Irish American History Through Song, released by Crown Publications in February 2002 with an accompanying compact disc on Shanachie Records. He holds a Ph.D. in folklore and folklife from the University of...