Contributors

Contributors APARNA DHARWADKER teaches drama and eighteenth-century studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her articles and translations of Indian poetry have appeared, or are forthcoming, in PMLA, New Theatre Quarterly, The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, and The Penguin New Writing in India. She is currently working on the politics of comic and historical forms in late seventeenth-century drama. ALAN FILEWOD teaches at the University of Guelph. The past editor of Canadian Theatre Review, he is the author of Collective Encounters: Documentary Theatre in English Canada. RAWLE GffiBONS is the Director of the Creative Arts Centre at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. He is the author of a trilogy on the calypso: Sing de Chorus (1991); Ah Wanna Fall (1992) and Ten to One (t993). VERONICA KELLY teaches at the University of Queensland. She is co-editor of Australasian Drama Studies and publishes on colonial and contemporary Australian theatre. RICHARD PAUL KNOWLES, Chair of the Department of Drama, University of Guelph, writes on early modem drama and on Canadian theatre. His articles have appeared in a range of journals including Theatre Journal, Essays in Theatre and Canadian Theatre Review. LOREN KRUGER is a cultural theorist teaching in the Department of English, University of Chicago. She is author of The National State: Theatre and Cultural Legitimation in England, France, and America. Modern Drama, 38 (1995) 145 146 Contributors TOM MAGUIRE is a Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the Liverpool Institute of Higher Education. His research interests include popular and political theatres, Scottish theatre, and post-colonial drama and theatre. PANKAJ K. SINGH, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India, is currently a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. Her areas of academic interest are modern drama, theory, and women's studies. She is also a translator of Hindi and Panjabi plays into English. JOANNE TOMPKINS teaches drama at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She publishes on post-colonial drama, particularly Australian and Canadian. Her book Re-acting (to) Empire: Post-Colonial Drama and Performance (co-authored with Helen Gilbert) will be published by Routledge in 1995· W.B. WORTHEN, Professor of English and Theatre at Northwestern University, directs the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama. He is the author of The Idea of the Actor and Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater. He is currently working on authority and performance in the modern theatre. ...