Contributors
- Contributors
Donald Anderson is Professor of English at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he teaches American Literature, Dramatic Literature, and Theatre Arts. He is also a playwright and director. Recent publications have been on Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Washington Irving, John Updike, Sarah Orne Jewett, Thomas Wolfe, the film Big Night, in addition to several articles on early American drama. His book-length study Shadowed Cocktails: The Plays of Philip Barry from Paris Bound to The Philadelphia Story was published in 2010 by Southern Illinois University Press.
Thomas Fahy is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the American Studies Program at Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus. His books include Staging Modern American Life: Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos (Palgrave, forthcoming) and Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination (Palgrave, 2006). He also co-edited Peering Behind the Curtain: Disability, Illness, and the Extraordinary Body in Contemporary Theater (Routledge, 2002).
Thomas Freeland received his B.F.A. and M.A. in Theatre from the University of Colorado and his Ph.D. in Drama from Stanford University. He participated in the first "Wrestling with Barker" workshop in 2003, conducted by Howard Barker and the Wrestling School theatre company. He presented an earlier version of this paper at an international conference hosted by the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 2009, "Howard Barker's Art of the Theatre." He has also published translations of works by Heiner Mü ller and has directed several productions of Mü ller texts, including the world premiere of Mommsen's Block. He is currently a Lecturer in Oral Communication at Stanford University.
Priscilla Meléndez received her Ph.D. in Contemporary Latin American Literature from Cornell University in 1985. She has taught at Michigan State, Penn State, Yale University, University of Connecticut, Storrs University, and now at Stony Brook University. She is the author of two [End Page 118] books: La dramaturgia hispanoamericana contemporánea: Teatralidad y autoconciencia (1990) and The Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American Theater (2006).
Michelle Robinson is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and Boston University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. [End Page 119]
