Contributors
- Contributors
Doug Arrell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Toronto and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of London. He was a founder and first Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association. He is a director and dramaturge and the author of articles on Canadian theatre history, queer studies, and aesthetic theory.
Peter A. Campbell is Assistant Professor of Theater History and Criticism at Ramapo College. His scholarly and creative work focuses on contemporary versions of Greek tragedies. With his company, red handle, he is currently creating a trilogy of works: iph.then and Yellow Electras, as part of the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator in New York City, and Orestes/West, which was commissioned by Greasy Joan and Co. in Chicago.
Kimberly Fairbrother Canton is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto, where she is completing a dissertation titled " 'Opera Made New' and Anglo-American Literary Modernism: Pound, Stein, Joyce and Woolf."
Luc Gilleman teaches in the English Department and the Comparative Literature Program at Smith College. He is the author of John Osborne: Vituperative Artist (Routledge, 2002).
Julie Stone Peters is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. A specialist in early modern and modern comparative drama, her most recent book is Theatre of the Book: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe, 1480-1880 (Oxford 2000) (winner of the ACLA Harry Levin Prize and the English Association Beatrice White award, among others). She is currently working on two books: a study of theatre anthropology and ethnographic spectacle in the nineteenth- and early twentieth centuries, and a study of obscenity and theatrical modernism. [End Page 163]
Tanya Thresher is an Associate Professor in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Professor Thresher has her Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Washington (1998), an M.A. and B.A. from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. In addition to articles on Ibsen and contemporary Norwegian dramatists, she has published Cecilie Løveid: Engendering a Dramatic Tradition (2005) and was the editor for A Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century Norwegian Writers (2004). Her research and teaching interests include modern Scandinavian drama and film, women's writing, and Scandinavian postmodernity. Currently Professor Thresher is working on a book about the relationship between Henrik Ibsen and melodrama.
Jerry Wasserman is Professor of English and Theatre and Acting Head of the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His books include Modern Canadian Plays, now in its fourth edition, Theatre and AutoBiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice, co-edited with Sherrill Grace, and Spectacle of Empire: Marc Lescarbot's Theatre of Neptune in New France. He reviews theatre for the Province newspaper and for his Web site, http:www.vancouverplays.com, and serves on the board of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association. His more than two-hundred professional credits for stage, TV, and films include The Accused, Alive, Flight 93, I, Robot, and the forthcoming Watchmen. [End Page 164]
