Contributors

Contributors DAVID BARNETT is a Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Huddersfield , where he specializes in contemporary Gennan drama and metatheatre. He has published a book on Heiner MUlier, Literature versus Theatre (1998), and articles on MUlier, Kroetz, Hochhuth, Schwab, Fassbinder, Handke, Kipphardt , and Joseph Goebbels. He is a Research Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation and is currently working on the first book-length study of Fassbinder's work in the theatre. REBECCA S. CAMERON is an assistant professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan, where she teaches modem British literature. Her research focuses on modem British drama, particularly by women, and she is currently working on a book project on Ibsen's impact on British culture at the tum of the last century. She is a research associate with the Orlando Project, a major collaborative project in women's literary history and humanities computing. CHRIS FLEMING is a lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. His research interests are in the areas of contemporary arts, theatre, history and philosophy of science, and contemporary social theory. His book Rene Girard: Violence and Mimesis is forthcoming from Polity Press. JAMES HARDING is Associate Professor of English at Mary Wru;hington College and a recent Fulbright Scholar (2001-2002). He is the author of Adorno and "a Writing of the Ruins" (SUNY Press, 1997) and editor of Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde (University of Michigan Press, 2000). At present, he is completing a book on U.S. experimental perfonnance and is incoming Senior Editor of the journal Theatre Survey. His work has appeared in TDR, PMLA, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, and other journals. Modern Drama,44:4 (2001) 517 518 Contributors PIPER MURRAY is a doctoral candidate at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee . She is currently working on her dissertation. which explores rhetorics of emotion in writing theory and pedagogy. MARKUS WESSENDORF is assistant professor at the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is the author of a monograph on Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theatre. but has also published essays on Bertolt Brecht. The Wooster Group. Ron Athey. the choreographer William Forsythe. and various German performance artists. Dr. Wessendorf has also worked internationally as a theatre director; his production of Friedrich Schiller's The Robbers will be presented at Kennedy TheatreIHonolulu in spring 2003. ...