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  • Contributors

Khalid Amine is Professor of Performance Studies, Faculty of Letters and Humanities at Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Morocco. He was previously Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Interweaving Performance Cultures, Free University, Berlin, Germany (2008–2010). He has numerous publications in international theater journals including TDR, Theatre Journal, Documenta, ETcetera, Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies, and FIRT Journal. He is co-author with Distinguished Professor Marvin Carlson of The Theatres of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: Performance Traditions of the Maghreb (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), a contribution to the book series Studies in International Performance, edited by Janelle Reinelt and Brian Singleton.

Katarzyna Olga Beilin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Conversaciones literarias con novelistas contemporáneos (Tamesis, 2004), the novel Meteory (Agawa, 2005), and Del infierno al cuerpo: la otredad en la narrativa y cine peninsular contemporáneo (Libertarias, 2007). She is currently working on her forthcoming book Bulls, Apes, Genes and Clouds: Debates on Ethics of Life in Contemporary Spain.

Gina Bloom is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, where she also codirects the Mellon Research Initiative in Early Modern Studies. She is the author of Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007) and has published articles in Theatre Survey, Renaissance Drama, Shakespeare Studies, English Literary Renaissance, and various edited collections. She is currently completing a book manuscript on games and masculinity in the early modern theater.

Sarah Carpenter is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests center on medieval and early modern drama and practices of performance, primarily in Scotland and England. She is author, with Meg Twycross, of Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England (Ashgate, 2002), and of many articles on aspects of early theater. She is currently working on sixteenth-century performance at the royal court of Scotland, including editing the Records of Early Drama Scotland: The Royal Court. [End Page 579]

Eric Dunnum teaches in the English Department at Marquette University. He has published on Milton and early modern drama. His current research explores the economic, political, and biocultural factors that influenced early modern playwrights’ notions of performance and audience.

Valleri Hohman is Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Criticism at the University of Illinois. Professor Hohman’s areas of research include Russian-American cultural exchange, Cold War performances, transnational theater historiography, and Chekhov in translation and adaptation. Her book Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891–1933 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) examines the influences of Russian performance styles on modern American theatrical production. Dr. Hohman is an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center.

Jane Kingsley-Smith is a Reader at Roehampton University, London. She is the author of two monographs, Shakespeare’s Drama of Exile (Palgrave, 2003) and Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2010), as well as articles on early modern love tragedy and Shakespeare on film. She is currently working on a new edition of the tragedies of Webster and Ford for Penguin (2013).

David Kornhaber is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently completing a manuscript entitled “The Birth of Theatre from the Spirit of Philosophy: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Development of the Modern Drama.” His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Theatre Research International, and Philosophy and Literature, among other journals.

Claudia Orenstein is Associate Professor of Theatre at Hunter College, CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is author of Festive Revolutions: The Politics of Popular Theatre and the San Francisco Mime Troupe (University Press of Mississippi, 1998) and co-author of The World of Theatre: Tradition and Innovation (Pearson, 2005). Her current research focuses on Indian puppetry. She is working on Magic in our Hands, a documentary film on Indian women puppeteers, and on an anthology of new puppetry scholarship. [End Page 580]

Cecilia J. Pang is Associate Professor and Head...

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