Contributors
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Marvin Carlson is Executive Officer of the Theater Program and Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theater and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the founding editor of Western European Stages and has published widely on theater studies. His books include The Theatre of the French Revolution; Goethe and the Weimar Theatre; The Italian Stage from Goldoni to D'Annunzio; Theories of the Theatre; Theatre Semiotics: Signs of Life; Performance: A Critical Introduction; and The Haunted Stage. He has received the George Jean Nathan Award for dramatic criticism.
Sue-Ellen Case is Chair of Critical Studies, Theater Department, University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Feminism and Theatre and The Domain Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture; she is the editor of The Divided Home/Land: Contemporary German Women's Plays; Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance; and Performing Feminisms. With Philip Brett and Susan Leigh Foster she edits a book series for Indiana University Press entitled Unnatural Acts.
Josette Féral is Professor of Drama at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her books include Mise en scène et jeu de l'acteur, vols. I and II (1997, 1998), Trajectoires du Soleil (1998), Rencontres avec Ariane Mnouchkine (1995) and La culture contre l'art: essai d'économie politique du théâtre (1990). She has published in Cahiers de théâtre, Jeu, SubStance, Théâtre Public, The Drama Review, Modern Drama, The French Review, Discourse, Theaterschrift and Poétique.
Joachim Fiebach is Professor emeritus of Theatre Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His current research deals with Historical-Comparative Studies in Cultural Performance and Theatricality. His books include Von Craig bis Brecht (1975, 1991); Kunstprozesse in Afrika. Literatur im Umbruch (1979); Die Toten als die Macht der Lebenden. Zur Theorie und Geschiche von Theater in Afrika (1986); Inseln der Unordnung. Fünf Versuche zu Heiner Müllers Theatertexten (1990); and Keine Hoffnung Keine Verzweiflung. Versuche zur Theatralität und Theaterkunst. (1998).
Anne-Britt Gran is a lecturer at the Institute for Music and Theater, University of Oslo. She has published articles on Theatricality, Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian Theater History, Norwegian Cultural Politics, Modern Directing and Acting and on Interculturalism. Her area of specialization is Interculturalism, Orientalism and Post-colonial Theory.
Silvija Jestrovic is a playwright and dramaturge with a Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama from the University of Toronto. Her articles have appeared in Canadian Theatre Review; Balagan: Slavisches Drama Theater und Kino; Body, Space, Technology Journal; and Ludus (Belgrade). She is the organizer of the Theatre and Exile Conference (March 2002, Toronto). Her play Noah's Ark 747 was performed this year in Teesri Duniya Theatre, Montreal.
Susan Leigh Foster, choreographer, dancer, and scholar, is Professor of Dance at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance (1986); Choreography and Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire (1996); and Dances that Describe Themselves (2002). She is the editor of Choreographing History (1995) and Corporealities (1996).
Virginie Magnat is a theater practitioner and researcher influenced by the teachings of Zygmunt Molik, Ludwik Flasgen and Ryszard Cieslak (founding members of Jerzy Grotowski's Laboratory Theater), as well as by her study of Kathakali with Karunakaran Nair (collaborator of Peter Brook and Ariane Mnouchkine). Her doctoral research (UC San Diego) repositions the performer as an “indigenous ethnographer of performance.” She is the 2001 recipient of the International Federation for Theatre Research New Scholar's Prize, awarded for her essay “The Labor of Embodiment—Toward a Trans-action between Live Performance and Sensuous Scholarship.”
Mitsuya Mori obtained a B.A. in Aesthetics from Tokyo University, an M.A. in Theater Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. from Meiji University, Tokyo. His doctoral thesis was published under the title Ibsen's Realism. He is Professor of Theater Studies in the Department of Art Studies, Seijo University, Tokyo, and is president of the Japanese Society for Theater Research. His books include Scandinavian Theater and Comparative Theater.
Timothy Murray is Professor of English at Cornell University. He has published...
