Magical Muse: Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams

Contributors

Jackson R. Bryer is professor of English at the University of Maryland and has written many books and articles about American ¤ction , particularly F. Scott Fitzgerald, and about American drama, particularly Eugene O’Neill. Bryer is the scholar’s conference director for the annual William Inge Theater Festival. George W. Crandell is professor of English at Auburn University. He has published articles on American humor and modern drama as well as Tennessee Williams: A Descriptive Bibliography and The Critical Response to Tennessee Williams. He is currently working on a descriptive bibliography of the works of Arthur Miller. Albert J. Devlin is professor of English at the University of Missouri and has published Conversations with Tennessee Williams as well as extensive research (with Nancy Tischler) on Williams’s correspondence . Volume 1 of Devlin’s and Tischler’s Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams appeared in 2000. Allean Hale is adjunct professor of theater at the University of Illinois . A member of the editorial board of the Tennessee Williams Annual Review, she is a longtime Tennessee Williams scholar who has been particularly interested in the discovery and publication of Williams’s previously unknown work. She has recently edited The Notebook of Trigorin, Not About Nightingales, Stairs to the Roof, and The Fugitive Kind. Contributors Barbara M. Harris teaches at the University of Missouri, where she is completing her doctoral dissertation, “Shades, Shadows, Ghosts, and Doppelgängers in the Plays of Tennessee Williams.” W. Kenneth Holditch is research professor emeritus of the University of New Orleans and author of The Last Frontier of Bohemia: Tennessee Williams in New Orleans. He is also the founder and editor of the Tennessee Williams Literary Journal; cofounder of the Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi ; and one of the founders of the Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans. He recently coedited two volumes of Williams’s Plays, 1927–1955 and 1957–1980, in the Library of America series, and coauthored the forthcoming A More Congenial Climate: Tennessee Williams and the South. Philip C. Kolin is professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has done extensive research and has published a great deal on Williams’s work, particularly the productions of his plays, and is the author of Williams: “ A Streetcar Named Desire” in Cambridge’s Plays in Production series. He cofounded, with Colby Kullman, the journal American Drama, 1945–Present and recently published Deep Wonder, a book of his own poetry. Colby Kullman is professor of English at the University of Mississippi and cofounder, with Philip C. Kolin, of American Drama, 1945–Present. He and Kolin coedited Speaking on Stage: Twenty-seven Interviews with Contemporary American Playwrights. Kullman is also editor-in-chief of the two-volume reference series Theatre Companies of the World. Jeffrey B. Loomis is professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University and the author of Dayspring in Darkness: Sacrament in Hopkins. He has also written articles on dramatists ranging from Shakespeare, Goethe, and Strindberg to Albee, Zindel, Sondheim, and Howe. Michael Paller is a dramaturge, writer, and director in New York City. He has served as literary manager and dramaturge at the George Street Playhouse, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, and the Bar242 Contributors rington Stage Company. He was Richard Corley’s dramaturge for the Russian premiere of Williams’s Small Craft Warnings and has taught at Columbia University and the Cooper Union. He is currently at work on a book on gay characters in Williams’s plays. Robert Siegel is a professor in the graduate creative writing program at East Carolina University. His plays have been produced in New York and regionally, and he has written screenplays for production companies in the United States and Europe. His contribution here was ¤rst read at our symposium and was then published by American Drama. Dan Sullivan teaches journalism at the University of Minnesota and directs the O’Neill Critics’ Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. He spent twenty-one years as the drama critic for the Los Angeles Times. Nancy M. Tischler is professor emerita at Pennsylvania State University . The author of Tennessee Williams: Rebellious Puritan and The Student Companion to Tennessee Williams, she collaborated with Albert J. Devlin in collecting and publishing Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, the ¤rst volume of which appeared in 2000. Ralph F. Voss is professor of English at the University of Alabama. He is the author of A Life of William Inge: The Strains of Triumph and Elements of...