Contributors

Contributors ALAN L. ACKERMAN, JR., is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Toronto and author of The Portable Theater: American LiterallIre and the Nineteenth-Century Stage (Johns Hopkins UP, (999). ELINOR FUCHS is Professor of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the Yale School of Drama. Her most recent books are The Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater After Modernism (Indiana UP, (996), winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and, with Una Chaudhuri, the anthology Land/Scope/Theater (forthcoming from U of Michigan Pl. HERBERT LINDENBERGER is Avalon Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University. Besides books on Wordsworth, Buechner, and Trakl, his writings include studies of historical drama, critical theory, and opera, most recently Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage. He is currently working on how various art fDImS have made incursions upon one another. MARTIN PUCHNER is an assistant professorof English and comparative literature and Co-Chair of the theatre PhD program at Columbia University. He is author of Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP, 2002). REBECCA L. WALKOWITZ is completing a book on the aesthetics of cosmopolitanism in twentieth-century literature and cultural theory. An assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a recipient of an ACLS Fellowship for 2002/2003, Walkowitz is the author of several essays on twentieth-century literature, narrative theory. and international cultures and editor of five books in the field of cultural studies, most recently The Turn to Ethics (Routledge, 2000). Modern Drama, 44:3 (2oo!) 380 Contributors KIRK WILLIAMS is Assistant Professor of Gennan and Theater Studies at Yale University. He has published work on eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentiethcentury Gennan theatre and culture. He has recently completed a book manuscript that examines the significance of anti-theatrical discourse in eighteenthcentury Gennan theatre and philosophy. ...