Contributors

Contributors SEVERINO JOAO ALBqQUERQUE is an Assistant Professor ofPortuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published poetry and short fiction in Brazil, and in the United States he has contributed articles on Brazilian literature and theater to Hispania, Latin American Theatre Review, Discurso literario, and Luso-Brazilian Review. He is completing a book on contemporary Latin American theater. JAMES L. CALDERWOOD is Professor ofEnglish and Associate Dean of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He has published several books on Shakespeare, the most recent, If It Were Done: Tragic Action in Macbeth. JOHAN CALLENS graduated from the Free University of Brussels, where he presently is an Assistant in English and American Literature, and received an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. Articles and reviews of his have appeared in the Dutch Quarterly Review, Belgisch Tijdschrijt voor Filologie en Geschiedenis and the theatre journal Etcetera. He is writing his Ph.D. dissertation on Jack Richardson. PETER COCOZZELLA is Associate Prof~ssor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, State University of New York at Binghamton. He has translated Salvador Espriu's Ronda de Mort a Sinera (Death Around Sinera), Modern International Drama (fall 1980). He is secretary ofthe North American Catalan Society and is currently engaged in the preparation of an anthology of Catalan poetry, featuring the English translation facing the original texts. RICHARD F. DIETRICH is a Professor ofEnglish at the University ofSouth Florida. He has published articles on Shaw, Ibsen, Albee, Beckett, Cummings, Frost, Robbe-Grillet, Brautigan, and William Carlos Williams, a book on Shaw's novels, and several textbooks. Most recently, he has served as Contributing Editor for the Annotated Secondary Bibliography Series on G.B. Shaw. Contributors 503 DAVID NICHOLSON wrote his dissertation, "The Fairy Tale in Modern Drama" (1982), at the Graduate School ofthe City University ofNew York. His articles on the fairy drama have appeared in Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, and Comparative Literature Studies. He does free-lance writing and teaches at The Riverdale Country School in the Bronx. NEIL SAMMELLS received his doctorate from the University of London in 1984 with a thesis on Tom Stoppard. He has taught at the University ofNewcastle Upon Tyne, and is currently a lecturer at Bath College of Higher Education. He has published articles on Stoppard and James Saunders, and has a book forthcoming from Macmillan, Tom Stoppard: An Aesthetics 0/Engagement, in which his article in this issue will form part of a chapter. CHARLES G. WHITING is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University, where he is a member of the Executive Committee for the Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama, and where he teaches several drama courses, including a graduate course on Sam Shepard. MATHEW WINSTON is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama. He has written extensively on Shakespeare's plays and about contemporary drama and fiction. "The Incoherent Self' is part of his New Concepts o/Comedy, expected tobe published in Methuen's "New Accents" series late in 1987. TOBY SILVERMAN ZINMAN, Associate Professor ofEnglish at the Philadelphia College of Art, has published on Pinter, Beckett, and Shepard. She is currently at work on a study of the connection between Shepard and Jackson Pollock. ...