Notes On Contributors
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James Al-Shamma is the author of Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays (McFarland, 2011) and Ruhl in an Hour. He has a PhD in dramatic art from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is an assistant professor of theater at Belmont University. Current research interests include Arabic and Iraqi theater. His article “Staging Baghdadi Bath on the Western Stage: Toward a Theatre of Trauma” was published in the Spring 2013 issue of the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.
Zander Brietzke has taught at Columbia University, Montclair State, The College of Wooster, and Lehigh University. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Failure: Dynamic Structure in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill (McFarland, 2001), American Drama in the Age of Film (University of Alabama Press, 2007), and an instructor’s manual, Teaching with the Norton Anthology of Drama (2009, 2013). An ex-president of the Eugene O’Neill Society, Zander edited the Eugene O’Neill Review at Suffolk University in Boston from 2004 to 2010. Currently, he is writing a manuscript on dramatic action in Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg.
Vivian Casper is an associate professor of English at the Texas Woman’s University in Denton. She holds a PhD in English from Rice University. In addition to advising undergraduate English majors, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in British literature (especially the Romantic and Victorian poets); genre courses in poetry, drama (Shakespeare, Restoration and eighteenth century, modern, American, and African American), and short fiction; and advanced grammar and composition. She has published in the Eugene O’Neill Review and the Arthur Miller Journal. [End Page 133]
Patrick Chura is professor of English at the University of Akron, where he teaches courses in American literature. His recent book, Thoreau the Land Surveyor, won the College English Association of Ohio’s 2012 Dasher Award for literary scholarship. He has been a Peace Corps volunteer in the Republic of Lithuania and is a two-time Fulbright lecturer, teaching in Lithuania in 2009 and in the United Kingdom in 2012.
Robert M. Dowling is professor of English at Central Connecticut State University and serves on the editorial board of the Eugene O’Neill Review and the board of directors of the Eugene O’Neill Society. His books include Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem (2007), the two-volume Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill (2009), and Eugene O’Neill and His Early Contemporaries: Bohemians, Radicals, Progressives, and the Avant Garde (2011), coedited with Eileen Herrmann. Dowling’s compendium of O’Neill’s opening night reviews, Eugene O’Neill: The Contemporary Reviews, coedited with Jackson R. Bryer, will appear this summer, 2014.
Sherry Engle is the author of New Women Dramatists in America, 1890–1920 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Her ongoing interest in women playwrights is reflected in published articles and conference papers. She is associate professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College in the Department of Speech, Communication and Theatre Arts. She also writes screenplays and plays, and recently had her play, The 1936 Project, a Living Newspaper, performed by BMCC students. In October she joined members of the Susan Glaspell Society in presenting a seminar on the Provincetown Players at the Orange Tree Theatre in London.
Katie N. Johnson is associate professor at Miami University of Ohio, where she specializes in theater, film, and gender studies. Her first book, Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America (Cambridge University Press, 2006), was supported by an NEH Summer Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, and the Eugene O’Neill Review, among other publications. She is currently working on a new book project called “Razing the Great White Way: A Cultural Geography of Broadway’s Golden Era.”
Daniel Larner took his AB from Harvard and PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is professor of theater at Western Washington University, where he has taught since 1968. He is a thirty-five-year member [End Page 134] of the board of directors of the ACLU of Washington and also teaches civil liberties in the Law, Diversity and Justice Program at Fairhaven College, WWU, where...
