Contributors
- Contributors
Robert Cohen is the Claire Trevor Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine. His publications include six books on acting and directing (including his defining text, Acting Power), Theatre, Giraudoux:Three Faces of Destiny, and his latest book, Working Together in Theatre, along with several edited anthologies, original plays, play and opera translations, two dozen articles, and over 400 play reviews in Plays International and Contemporary Literary Criticism. He also directs classic dramas professionally at the Utah and Colorado Shakespeare Festivals and has toured his productions of new plays to Romania, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
Marty Gould is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Florida, where he teaches courses in British literature of the long nineteenth century. His research interests include theatre, empire, Dickens, and adaptation. He is the author of The Nineteenth-Century Theatre and the Imperial Encounter (Routledge 2011). Focused on three recurring theatrical figures - the castaway, the nabob, and the soldier - the book argues that the nineteenth-century theatre served as a primary site for Britain's encounter with its empire.
John Guthrie teaches modern German literature and language at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Schiller the Dramatist: A Study of Gesture in the Plays (2009).
Dr Alyce von Rothkirch holds a M.A. in English Literature from the Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz, Germany) and a Ph.D. in Welsh writing in English from the University of Wales (Swansea, Wales). Her Ph.D., which dealt with contemporary Welsh drama in English between 1979 and 1998, was published as The Place of Wales (Trier: WVT, 2007). She now works on early Welsh drama in English, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Welsh periodical publications in English, and early and golden age detective fiction. She is a lecturer at Swansea University. [End Page 263]
Lawrence Switzky is Assistant Professor of English and Drama at the University of Toronto. He is currently completing a project on the cultural and artistic causes and consequences of the rise of the theatre director. He is also researching the relationship between art and democratic deliberation.
Graham Wolfe recently completed a Ph.D. in Drama at the University of Toronto's Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. He currently teaches theatre and drama at Brock and Windsor Universities. [End Page 264]
