Contributors
- Contributors
Matthew Paul Carlson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches drama as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and Irish literature. His dissertation, “W.H. Auden and Opera: Case Studies of the Libretto as Literary Form,” explores Auden’s collaborations with composers Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, Hans Werner Henze, and Nicolas Nabokov.
Julia Daniel is a Schmitt Fellow at Loyola University Chicago, where she is completing her dissertation project, City Limits: Modern Poetry and the Urban Transformation of American Wilderness. Her research interests include ecocriticism, modern American poetry and twentieth century verse drama. She serves as assistant book review editor for Time Present: Newsletter of the T.S. Eliot Society and was awarded the 2008 Fathman Prize for “‘Or It Might Be You’: Audiences in and of T.S. Eliot’s Sweeney Agonistes.”
Loren Glass is Associate Professor of English and in the Center for the Book at the University of Iowa, specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture. His first book, Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, was published by New York University Press. His history of Grove Press, Counter-Culture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde, is forthcoming in the Post*45 Series with Stanford University Press.
Alex Feldman completed his D.Phil. as a Domus Scholar at Merton College, Oxford, in 2009. His dissertation was concerned with the representation of history on the twentieth-century stage and with the formulation of a genre, which he terms “historiographic metatheatre.” A revised version of the project will be published by Routledge in 2012 under the title Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage: In the Wings of History. The [End Page 583] article printed here will form a substantial part of the second chapter. Feldman completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin in 2010 and is currently an Assistant Professor at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta.
Brad Kent is an Assistant Professor of British and Irish Literatures at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada. He is currently at work on a history of Shaw’s experiences with censorship and a critical edition of Mrs. Warren’s Profession for Methuen Drama’s New Mermaids series.
DR. Yana Meerzon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa. Her research interests are in theatre and drama theory, theatre of exile, and Russian theatre and drama. Her book The Path of a Character: Michael Chekhov’s Inspired Acting and Theatre Semiotics was published in 2005. Her articles have appeared in New England Theatre Journal, Slavic and East European Journal, Semiotica, Modern Drama, Translation Perspectives, Theatre Research in Canada, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Canadian Theatre Review, and L’Annuaire théâtral. A collection of articles (co-edited with Dr. Silvija Jestrovic, Warwick University, UK) entitled Performance, Exile and “America” was published in November 2009 by Palgrave. Her manuscript Performing Exile: Performing Self: Drama, Theatre, Film is in press (Palgrave, March 2012). [End Page 584]
