Contributors

Contributors ANITA GONZALEZ currently teaches at the State University of New York-New Paltz. She earned her PhD in Theater/perfonnance Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1997). Gonzalez has written book reviews and articles about multicultural perfonnance for Women and Performance, The Journal ojDramatic Theory and Criticism, and Dance Research Journal. Her book Jarocho's Soul is about nationalism and Afro-Mexican dance. Gonzalez has been a scholar in residence at Rockefeller's Bellagio Center and has won multiple awards for production and research, including three Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards. JILL DOLAN holds the Zachary T. Scott Family Chair in Drama in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also heads the MA/PhD Program in theatre history and criticism, with an emphasis in perfonnance as public practice. She is the author of Geographies oj Learning: Theory and Practice, Activism and Pelformance (Wesleyan), Presence and Desire: Gender, Sexuality, Performance (Michagan), and The Feminist Spectator as Critic (Michigan). Her next book, Utopia ill Performance : Finding Hope at the Theatre, is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press. EHREN FORDYCE teaches directing and contemporary performance in the Drama Department at Stanford University. As a director, he has staged dramas ranging from Btichner's Woyzeck to Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. As a scholar, he has written on the history of directing in nineteenth-century Europe, as well as on American experimental drama and experimental theatre artists such as the Wooster Group and Elevator Repair Service. Currently, he is writing about perfonnance groups Goat Island, Soeletas Raffaello Sanzio, and Dumb Type. Modern Drama, 47:2 (Summer 2004) 347 Contributors ERIN HURLEY is Assistant Professor of English at McGill University. Work in her speciality areas of quebecois performance and national performatives has been published in Theatre Journal, Theatre Research in Canada I Recherches theatrales au Canada, Canadian Theatre Review, and in the edited volume, Performing National Identities: Illternational Perspectives 011 Contemporary Canadian Theatre. She is currently completing her book manuscript, National Mimesis, which charts the varying relationships made between ideas of the nation and the performing arts in modern Quebec. This article launches her next research project called "Theorizing the Apparatus." JUDITH HAMERA is the President's Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Theatre Arts and Dance at California State University, Los Angeles . She is the editor of Opening Acts: Pelformance in Communication and Cultural Criticism (Sage, 2005), and co-editor of the Handbook of Pelformance Studies (Sage, 2005). Her publications have appeared in Cultural Studies , TDR, Text and Performance Quarterly, Theatre Topics, and Women and Language. MAURYA WICKSTROM is Assistant Professor of Drama at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. Her articles have been published in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, The Journ~1 ofDramatic Theory and Criticism, and Rethinking Marxism . She is preparing a book, Performing COllsumers: Theatrical Identifications in Corporate Cultures, which is under contract with Routledge. RAM6N H. RIVERA-SERVERA is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Southwest Borderlands Scholar at the Katherine Herberger College of Fine Arts at Arizona State University. He is Conference Planner and Focus Group Representative -elect for the Latina/o Performance Focus Group at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. His writings and reviews on Latina/o performance have appeared in Theatre Journal, TDR, and most recently in Caribbean Dance from Abakua to Zouk: How Movement Becomes Identity (UP of Florida, 2002). His current book project looks at U.S. Latina/o queer performances as practices of grassroots globalization. SHANNON BALEY is a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently writing her dissertation on gestic feminist dramaturgy in the plays of Naomi Wallace, Suzan-Lori Parks, Sharon Bridgforth, and Julie Jensen. STACY WOLF teaches in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the Universi.y of Texas at Austin. She is the author of A Problem like Maria: Gender alld Sexuality ill the American Musical (U of Michigan P, 2002) and the former editor of Theatre Topics. ...