Contributors

Contributors E. MILLER BUDICK is currently Senior Lecturer in the Departments of American Studies and English Literature at The Hebrew University ofJerusalem. His publications include essays on Edgar Allan Poe (abollt whom he wrote his thesis at Cornell), William Cullen Bryant, Emily Dickinson (his book on Dickinson is about to be published by Louisiana State University Press), Nathaniel Hawthorne, and other figures in American literature. MARVIN CARLSON, Professor of Comparative Literature and of Theatre and Drama at Indiana University, is the author of a number of books on theatre history and, most recently. of Theories ofthe Theatre, published by the Cornell University Press. He has also published articles on history, theory. and literature of the theatre in a variety of journals, among them Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, The Drama Review, PMLA, Semiotica, Comparative Literature,' and Scandinavian Studies. ROLF FJELDE has published Ibsen: The Complete Major Prose Plays and had previously edited Ibsen: A Collection a/Critical Essays. His translations of Ibsen, along with his original plays, have been widely produced in England, Canada, Norway, and the United States. He is Professor of English and Drama at Pratt Institute and Lecturer in Drama History at the Juilliard School. He is founding president of the Ibsen Society and editor of Ibsen News and Comment: Journal a/the Ibsen Year in America. STANTON B. GARNER, JR. is Assistant Professorof English at the University ofMichigan, specializing in drama: he teaches courses in Shakespeare, non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama, modem drama, and contemporary drama. In addition to reviews and conference papers, he has published "Language and Society: The Tempest" in Shakespeare Survey, 32; and he is currently working on a book entitled (tentativelx) The Absent Voice: Narrative and Presence in the Theater. . JOANNE E. GATES has read articles and published papers on Robins and Ibsen. She is Contributors currently writing a literary biography ofElizabeth Robins for her Ph.D. thesis in English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, She holds an M.F.A. in dramaturgy, and she has authored plays on women in theatre, including Hedda and Hilda and I, an imaginative treatment of Robins's acting and suffrage years. CASSANDRA LAITY. who recently completed her Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Michigan on Yeats's changing images of women, is Assistant Professor of English at .Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, She is pursuing her interest in the imageof the "New Woman" in late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century literature. STEIN HAUGOM OLSEN teaches English at the University of Oslo. He has published a book in literary aesthetics, The Structure ofLiterary Understanding (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1978), which appears in The Cambridge Paperback Library. He has also published a number of articles on problems in literary aesthetics in various philosophical and critical journals (The British Journal ofAesthetics, The Journal ofAesthetics and Art Criticism, Inquiry, Philosophical Quarterly, Mind, New Literary History) and in various anthologies. His only previous venture into criticism was an article in Critical Quarterly some years ago on Jane Austen's Emma. R.B. PARKER is Professor of English and currently Dean of Arts and Vice Provost of Trinity College in the University ofToronto. His research areas are Renaissance English Drama and modem American and Canadian drama. He edited an anthology ofessays on The Glass Menagerie in 1983· JOHN M. PERLETTE, Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida in Gainesville, received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He specializes in Renaissance literature and modem critical theory. and he has previously published essays on John Milton. VESNA PISTOTNIK, who has recently taught Shakespeare at the University of Sakato, Nigeria, wrote her Ph.D. thesis on stage productions of Christopher Marlowe in Great Britain from 1960 to 1982. Her research interests are mainJy in the fieJd of Renaissance drama, post-structuralist literary theory, and feminist criticism. She is currently studying the ways in which Shakespeare has been mobilized in terms of notions of national culture. NATALIE SANDLER teaches in the Department of English at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. MICHAEL SELMON received a Master of Science in mathematics at Miami University (Ohio) before coming to the University of Maryland, College Park, on a Provost's Fellowship. He now holds...