Contributors
- Contributors
Daphna Ben-Shaul teaches at the Theatre Studies Department, Tel Aviv University. Her publications are related to ideological and aesthetic aspects of meta-language, voiding as a performative phenomenon, performance analysis of contemporary theatre, and performance art. She is the editor of the exhaustive Zik: Twenty Years of Work (2005) about an Israeli performance group. She is currently a member of a research team funded by the German–Israeli Foundation (GIF).
Heather Debling completed a MA in English at McMaster University. She is a part-time instructor for Humber College and also teaches for the Avon Maitland District School Board. Her main area of interest is the presence and use of the past in contemporary British and Canadian literature, particularly retellings or re-imagings of World War I, which was the subject of her master's thesis. Other research interests include trauma theory, modern British and Canadian drama, and representations of mourning and memorialization.
Sos Eltis is a Fellow and Tutor in English at Brasenose College, Oxford University. She is the author of Revising Wilde: Society and Subversion in the Plays of Oscar Wilde (Oxford: OUP, 1996) and of a number of articles on Victorian and Edwardian theatre.
Scott Taylor is a Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Pacific Lutheran University. He has also taught at the University of Puget Sound and the Université de Paris IV – La Sorbonne. He holds a PhD from the Florida State University and specializes in contemporary French theatre and semiotics. He has published in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and has worked on a number of English and French language theatre productions as an actor, director, and dramaturge. He currently resides in Seattle, Washington. [End Page 308]
Karina Smith lectures in Literary and Gender Studies at Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia). She has published on Sistren Theatre Collective's work in Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Situation Analysis, MaComere, and Thirdspace. She is currently the President of the Australian Association for Caribbean Studies.
Ariel Watson recently received her PhD from Yale University's Department of English. Her dissertation, "The Anxious Triangle: Modern Metatheatres of the Playwright, Actor, and Spectator," explores drama's self-reflexive interest in its own production and reception, with a particular focus on the anxieties peculiar to these three crucial metatheatrical figures. Her research interests are unified by a consciousness of the porous boundaries between the theatre and other art forms: ekphrasis and the staging of tableaux that quote visual art, mimesis and diegesis, and the relationship between film and theatre as interconnected art forms. Her next project deals with the recent resurgence of documentary theatre in the United States and the United Kingdom and the implications of borrowings between film and theatre in the genre. [End Page 309]
