Contributors

{ 201 } CONTRIBUTORS LOU BELL AMY is an OBIE Award–winning director and an Associate Professor in the Theatre and Dance Department at the University of Minnesota.He is the founding artistic director of Penumbra Theatre Company in St. Paul, Minnesota. ELIN DIAMOND is Professor of English at Rutgers University. She is the author of Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theatre (1997) and Pinter’s Comic Play (1985) and the editor of Performance and Cultural Politics (1996). Currently at work on a book on modernism and performance, she is also coeditor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill. ANTONIS GLYTZOURIS is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Crete (Greece) and Director of the research project “History of Modern Greek Theatre” at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (Greece). His current research centers on the reception of European and American theatre and drama in modern Greece. He has published essays in Journal of Modern Greek Studies and Greek historical and theatre journals and is the author of Stage Direction in Greece: The Rise and Consolidation of the Stage Director in Modern Greek Theatre (in Greek, 2001). SCOT T R. IREL AN is Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Dramaturgy at Augustana College. He is Co-Chair of the Mid-America Theatre Conference Pedagogy Symposium and Chair of Dramaturgy for The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region III. His recent writings have appeared in Cercles and Theatre Journal. REBECCA K ASTLEMAN graduated from Harvard with a degree in Cultural Aesthetics and Performance Studies. She is currently living and writing in Serbia. { 202 } CONTRIBUTORS MARGARET M. KNAPP is a Professor in the School of Theatre and Film at Arizona State University. She has published on the Elizabethan stage and earlytwentieth -century American theatre in Theatre Journal, Theatre History Studies , Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Journal of American Culture, and Journal of Popular Culture. She is coauthor of “The Aunchant and Famous Cittie ”: David Rogers and the Chester Mystery Plays (1988). L ANDIS K. MAGNUSON is the former Chair of the English department and continues to serve as Director of the Anselmian Abbey Players at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. His book Circle Stock Theater: Touring American Small Towns, 1900–1960 was designated by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book in 1996. Personal scholarship has centered on the latenineteenth - and early-twentieth-century American theatre, including such popular forms as repertoire theatre, vaudeville, and the Chautauqua movement. FR ANCESCA MARINI is Assistant Professor of Archival Studies at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies of the University of British Columbia, Canada. She has a B.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies and a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests focus on performing arts archives and digital preservation ; she publishes internationally in archival and theatre journals. TAV IA NYONG’O is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. He has published articles and reviews in Social Text, Women and Performance, Yale Journal of Criticism, Radical History Review, TDR, and GLQ. His book in progress investigates cultural performances in the first half of the nineteenth century that staged fears and anticipations of a racially hybrid nation to come. KENNETH SCHLESINGER is Chief Librarian of Lehman College/CUNY. He is a Vice President of Theatre Library Association and Board President of Independent Media Arts Preservation. MARGARET BR ADHAM THORNTON is the editor of Tennessee Williams ’s Notebooks, published by Yale University Press in 2007. Her work has appeared in Paris Review, Ploughshares, Seattle Review, Times Literary Supplement, and World Literature Today. ...