Contributors

Contributors VARUN BEGLEY teaches modem drama, film, and cultural studies at the College of William and Mary. He is currently researching a project on objects, furniture, and commodities on the modern stage. GEORGE CUSACK is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Auburn University, Montgomery, AL. His recently completed dissertation , Restaging Ireland, examinesthe rhetoric of nationalism in the drama of W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, and J.M. Synge. He has delivered several papers on Irish drama and culture for The American Conference for Irish Studies and The International Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, and his article "A Cold Eye Cast Inward: The Retreat into Narcissism in Seamus Heaney's Field Work," was recently published in New Hibernia Review. ROB DOGGETT is an Assistant Professor at SUNY College at Potsdam. His articles have appeared in Twentieth Century Literature, Colby Quarterly, and ELH. His recently completed dissertation on Yeats was awarded the 2002 Adele Dalsimer Prize for a Distinguished Dissertation in Irish Studies by the American Conference for Irish Studies. JILL DOLAN holds the Zachary T. Scott Family Chair in Drama at the University of Texas at Austin, where she heads the MA/PhD Program in Performance as Public Practice. She is the author of Geographies of Learning (Wesleyan, 2001), Presence and Desire (Michigan, 1993), and The Feminist Spectator as Critic (Michigan, 1991). She is a former president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the Women and Theatre Program, and former Executive Director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York. She is currently working on a book about performance and utopia. Modern Drama, 45:4 (Winter 2002) 673 CONTRIBUTORS SARA FREEMAN is Assistant Professor of Theatre History at Illinois Wesleyan University, where she has recently directed The Misalliance by Shaw and is at work on a production of Our Country's Good. She also works in Chicago as a dramaturg, most recently at Prop Thtr's annual New Play Festival. She writes about twentieth-century British theatre and contemporary women playwrights and has published reviews and articles in Theatre Journal, Theatre Research IllIemational, The Brecht Yearbook, and the Journal ofDramatic Theory and Criticism. She is at work on an edited volume of essays about Timberlake Wertenbaker. GEOFF HAMILTON is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, specializing in twentieth-century American literature. MATTHEW LEWSADDER is a PhD candidate in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University, where he continues to study nineteenth-century British drama, censorship. and gender and sexuality. HANA PECHAROVA completed her Master's degree in Theatre Research, along with studies in German Literature at the University of Helsinki (2001). Her thesis concerned the reception of Finnish drama and theatre in Czech lands (1938-1961). She is currently working on her PhD dissertation on Finnish theatre under the Third Reich (University of Helsinki). She is a participant in the International Centre for Advanced Theatre Studies and a member of The Theatrical Event Working Group of the FIRT/ IPTR. She has taught at Charles University in Prague and at Masaryk University in Brno. She recently received a DAAD research grant from the German government and she currently writes criticism for journals in Finland and the Czech Rcpublic. PEGGY PHELAN is the author of Unmarked: The Politics ofPeI!ormance (Routledge , 1993); Mourning Sex: Peiforming Public Memories (Routledge, 1997); and the survey essays for the art catalogs Art and Feminism (Phaidon, 2001) and Pipilotti Rist (Phaidon, 2001). ...