Contributors

Contributors MARC ELI BLANCHARD is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. Professor Blanchard, widely published in all aspects of Comparative Literature - in addition to his books on critical theory and linguistics, he has essays on a variety of topics in such journals as L'Esprit Createur, Nouvelle Revue Fran(aise, Yale French Studies, Comparative Literature, Diacritics - has recently been concentrating not only upon ancient Greek and Roman art and literature (e.g.• in Semiotica 1983), but also upon modem French drama (he is currently writing about the Symbolists, Anouilh, and Sartre). He presently holds a Guggenheim Fellowship. JAMES C. BULMAN is Associate Professor of English at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He is author of The Heroic Idiom ofShakespearean Tragedy and coeditor of the forthcoming Comedy from Shakespeare to Sheridan. He has published articles and presented numerous papers on Renaissance and modem drama. DANIEL GEROULD teaches Theatre and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of CUNY. He has published three volumes of translations ofWitkiewicz, as well as a critical study of his works, Witkacy. His other publications include Twentieth-Century Polish Avant-Garde Drama, and the collections American Melodrama and EighteenthCentury French Comedies, Gallant alld Libertine. His latest book is Doubles, Demons, and Dreamers: An International Collection ofSymbolist Drama. MICHAEL HA YS is Associate Professor and Head of Theatre Studies in the Theatre Arts Department at Cornell University. He specializes in modem drama and its background, both in his book-length studies (The Public and Performance: Essays in the History of French and German Theatre, On Peter Szolldi), and his articles (in Modern Drama, German Critique, Revue des Langues Vivantes, Romantic Quarterly, Poetics Today), as well as in his editing projects (the section of Theatre 1983 on sociological approaches to Contributors drama). He is currently preparing a book on empowerment and disempowerment in modern drama. MARTIN MUELLER is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Chair of English at Northwestern University. His book Children a/Oedipus and Other Essays 011 the Imitation of Greek Tragedy, 1550-1800 (980) won the Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, and he has recently published a book on The Iliad (1984). PATRICE PAVIS teaches drama at the Institut d'etudes theatrales (Paris III). A specialist in Marivaux, he has published numerous articles on the semiotics of drama and performance. His major publications include ProbJemes de sbniologie theatrale, Dictionnaire du theatre, Voix et images de La scene, Languages oj the Stage, and Marivaux, l'epreuve de la scene comemporaine. THOMAS G. ROSENMEYER is Professor of Greek and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His book-length studies include The Masks of Tragedy (1963), The Green Cabinet (1969), and The Arto!Aeschylus (1982), as well as a translation of Bruno Snell, The Discovery ofthe Mind (1953). He has coauthored The Metres of Greek and Roman Poetry (1963), contributed the chapter on "Drama" in Moses Finley, ed., The LegacyofGreece (1981), and written many articles and reviews. SUSAN HARRIS SMITH has a Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University. She has written articles for The Dada!Surrealism Review, The CEA Critic, Fitzgerald! Hemingway Annual, Women and Literature, The Armchair Detective, and China: The Eighties Era. Her book, Masks in the Modern Drama, was published by the University of California in 1984; and she is currently working on a book-length study of modern American drama. She is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. ...