Contributors
- Contributors
Mary Thomas Crane is Professor of English at Boston College. She is the author of Framing Authority: Sayings, Self, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England (Princeton University Press, 1993) and Shakespeare’s Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory (Princeton University Press, 2001).
Adrian Curtin is a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Theatre and Drama at Northwestern University. His dissertation examines the phenomenon of experimental sound practices in the modernist theatrical avantgarde (1890–1935), identifying its historical motivations, designs and reception, and artistic significance. He has written journal articles on works by W. G. Sebald, James Joyce, and Peter Maxwell Davies.
Katherine Mannheimer is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Rochester. Her recent work has centered on print culture, gender, and visuality in Augustan satire; her current project is a reconsideration of the relationship between print culture and the theater at the turn of the eighteenth century.
Nicole Rice teaches in the English Department at St. John’s University. Her first monograph, Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature, was published in December 2008 (Cambridge University Press). Nicole’s drama research considers intersections among artisanal, spiritual, and intellectual currents in English and French urban plays. An essay co-written with Margaret A. Pappano on light-bearing and civic controversy in York and Chester appears in Studies in the Age of Chaucer for 2008.
Mary Ann Frese Witt is Professor Emerita in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at North Carolina State University. Her recent books include The Search for Modern Tragedy: Aesthetic Fascism in Italy and France (Cornell University Press, 2001) and, as editor and contributor, Nietzsche and the Rebirth of the Tragic (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007). She has published widely on modern European drama and dramatic theory, especially on Pirandello and Genet. Her present research interest involves a reconsideration of metatheater in the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. [End Page 141]
