Contributors

Contributors GILBERT DEBUSSCHER teaches English and American Literature at the University of Brussels. In 1980/81 he was awarded an ACLS Fellowship to do research at Yale University on the recent work ofTennessee Williarns. He is the author ofEdwardAlbee: Tradition and Renewal (Center for American Studies, Brussels, 1967), and of articles and reviews on American and avant-garde drama in scholarly journals. HELGA PINTER is a member of the Department of Languages and Literatures at Mannheim University in Germany. She has published a book on Italian futurism, Semiotik des Avantgardetextes (Stuttgart, 1980). She is active in the journals Theater Heute, Aktenze, Art Press, and Spirali; and she is writing a book on the experimental theatre. ELIZABETH FORSYTH was graduated from Lafayette College in 1982 with honors in English for a thesis on David Marnet. She presently lives and works in New York City. S.E. GONTARSKI is an Associate Professor at the Ohio State University at Lima (and has been Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside). He has written reviews and essays for Modern Drama, Journal ofBeckett Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Perspectives on Contemporary Literature, James Joyce Quarterly, ArtPress, Modernist Studies, and various anthologies. He is author ofBeckett's "Happy Days": A Manuscript Study; coeditor with Pierre Astier and Morris Beja of Samuel Beckett: Humanistic Perspectives; editor of a Beckett number of Modern Fiction Studies; and current editor of Journal ofBeckett Studies. JUDITH ZYKOFSKY JONES received her Ph.D. in contemporary French literature from Stanford University. She was a Vjsiting Scholar at Stanford University Center for Research on Women in 1979/80 and an Affiliated Scholar in 1981. Currently, she is a Coordinator of the Women's Center of San Joaquin County in Stockton, California. 586 Contributors PAUL LAWLEY is Tutor in the Department ofEnglish and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick; he also works in a tutorial capacity for the Open University. He has published articles on Beckett in lournal ofBeckett Studies, as well as reviews in Theatre Journal and Modern Language Review. He has also contributed entries to Contemporary Dramatists (St. James Press). JOHN H. LUTTERBIE is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington. He is writing his dissertation on abstract concepts in Tom Stoppard's plays and their effects on the dramatic structures. JUDITH G. MILLER is Associate Professor of French at the University of WisconsinMadison , where she both teaches and directs French theatre with her students. Author of Theatre and Revolution in France since 1968 (French Forum Monographs, 1978), Professor Miller is currently collaborating with Christiane Makward of Pennsylvania State University on an anthology of plays by French and Francophone women writers. WARREN MOTLEY is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Douglass College, Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and modem drama. He is working on a book about "The American Abraham: The Patriarch in Frontier Literature," which follows the settlement of the frontier in novels from Cooper to Faulkner. THOMAS NASH became interested in the study of folklore in literature while doing doctoral work with Professors Barre Toelken and Sharon Sherman at the University of Oregon. Since that time, he has published articles about folklore and literature in Southwest Folklore, Western Folklore, and The Kentucky Folklore Record. After holding teaching positions at Central Michigan University and Auburn University, Professor Nash recently returned to Oregon, where he is an Assistant Professor at Southern Oregon State College. At present, he is pursuing a larger study of folklore in the works of Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, and William Faulkner. PETER L. PODOL is Professor of Spanish at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania. A specialist incontemporary Hispanic theatre, he is the authorofFernandoArrabal (1978) in the Twayne World Authors series and is presently preparing the first edition in Spanish of Arrabal's drama And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers. He has also contributed numerous articles and reviews to professional journals such as Hispanic Review, Hispania, Revista de estudios hispanicos, West Coast Review, Hispan6fila, Modern Drama, Estreno, Latin American Theater Review, and Modern Language Studies. At Lock Haven, he...