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Contributors SUSANNA BOHME-KUBY teaches Gennan literature at the University of Udine, Italy. A graduate of the University of Pisa, she has also taught at the Universities of Genoa and Venice. Her publications include studies of the history of the press, post-war literature, and Kurt Tucholsky. She is currently engaged in a research project on "The Press and Society in Gennany." LORENA BALENSlFER ELLIS has a BA in Brazilian, Gennan, and English Literature from Universidade de Sao Paulo and a PhD in Gennan Language and Literature from New York University. She is the author of Brecht's Reception in Brazil (t995). Since 1996 she has been an Assistant Professor of Gennan at Queensborough Community College (CUNY). JOACHIM FrEBACH, theoretician and historian of theatre and drama, was for many years the director of the Depanment of Theatre Studies and Cultural Communication at Humboldt University, Berlin. Among his many publications , the best known is probably Von Craig his Brecht, now in its third edition (199/). His areas of expenise include media studies and interculturalism, including the Yoruba popular travelling theatre. CHRISTA HASCHE teaches and does research at the Depanment of Theatre Studies and Cultural Communication at Humboldt University, Berlin, where she received her doctorate in 1980. She is also director of the practical program at the Depanment. IOANNA LUFT is currently enrolled in her the first year of the doctoral program at McMaster University. She works on gender in medieval texts, examining how patriarchal writing both situates and is undermined by its situating of Modem Drama, 42 (1999) 298 CONTRIBUTORS 299 female desire as unspeakable and the female voice as unspeaking and/or incoherent . JAMES K. LYON is a Professor of German Literature at Brigham Young University . He has published widely on the Holocaust, Benoit Brecht, and Paul Celan and is the author of Bertolt Brecht in den USA (t994). SIEGFRIED MEWS has published widely in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Gennan and comparative literature. His writing includes studies of Kleist, Zuckmayer, and Brecht and reflects his interest in Naturalism, exile, and postwar literature. Among the numerous books he has edited is A Bertolt Brecht Reference Companion (1997). ANNA PILETTI holds a doctorate in French studies, with a specialization in theatre history. She is a researcherat the University ofYerona. RONG GUANGRUN, a 1968 graduate of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, has been President of the Academy since 1996. A theorist and historian of theatre, Professor Rang has been a visiting professor at the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham. WOLFRAM SCHLENKER, whose publications range from German to Chinese subjects, has taught German Literature in China for many years and has served as consultant for Chinese theatrical productions. He is the author of Das kLlltLlrelle Erbe in der DDR: gesellschaftUche EnrwicklLlng LInd KultLlrpaUtik 1945- [965 (1977), and is presently with the Gesellschaft fur technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) in Beijing. ANNA SEYMOUR is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Huddersfield. Her research examines the relationship among theatre, drama therapy, and politics, through both theatrical and therapeutic practice, and through a classical Marxist approach to scholarship. She is also interested in Brecht, sexuality on the stage, political drama, and community drama in Britain , Nonhern Ireland, and the United States. ANNE UBERSFELD is a semiotician and critic who has been Director of the. Institut d'etudes theatrales at l'Universite de Paris III (Sorbonne), where she is Professor Emeritus. Her main publications include Le Roi et Ie bouffon (1974), L'Objet theotral (1980), L' Ecole du spectateur (1981), Les Termes des de I'analyse du theatre (1996), and Lire Ie theatre (1977), recently published as Reading Theatre (1999) in a translation by Frank Collins. ...

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