Notes on Contributors
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James Baird, recently retired, taught a course on the lyrics of Bob Dylan at the University of North Texas for over thirty years and has published on Dylan and other popular artists. His main squeeze in literary studies is Robinson Jeffers.
Martha Bower is Professor Emerita of American Literature and Graduate Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she taught for fifteen years. She is the author of two books about O'Neill, including an analysis of O'Neill's unpublished Cycle plays, Eugene O'Neill's Unfinished Threnody, and the first complete edition of More Stately Mansions. She has also published many articles and reviews of O'Neill's plays, as well as a psychological study of the plays of five black women playwrights: Color Struck under the Glaze. Bower has been a member of the Eugene O'Neill Society since 1984 and is currently on the board of directors.
Robert Combs teaches American drama and short fiction at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Author of Vision of the Voyage: Hart Crane and the Psychology of Romanticism, he has also published articles on O'Neill, Miller, Inge, Mamet, Horovitz, Wilde, and Pinter.
Robert M. Dowling is professor of English at Central Connecticut State University. He is the author of Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem (2007) and author and editor of the two-volume Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work (2009). His latest projects include a folio for the online journal Drunken [End Page 313] Boat entitled "Celtic Twilight: 21st-Century Irish Americans on Eugene O'Neill" (2010); a critical anthology, Eugene O'Neill and His Contemporaries: Bohemians, Radicals, Progressives, and the Avant Garde (2011), coedited with Eileen Herrmann; and a forthcoming compendium of O'Neill's opening night reviews, coedited with Jackson R. Bryer, to be published by Cambridge. Dowling is a member of the board of directors of the Eugene O'Neill Society.
Richard Eaton, Professor Emeritus of English at West Virginia University, has published on English and American literature and language, and has coauthored a number of articles and four books devoted to the study of Eugene O'Neill.
Drew Eisenhauer is the editor with Brenda Murphy of the collection Intertextuality in American Drama: Critical Essays on Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller and Other Playwrights. He is also the recent recipient of a City of Paris Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Paris, Denis Diderot, where he began his current research into French influences on American plays about bohemian artists and writers. His PhD dissertation, directed by Jackson R. Bryer, "'Something Sweetly Personal and Sweetly Social': Modernism, Metadrama, and the Avant Garde in the Plays of the Provincetown Players," was completed in 2009. His most recent publication, "Crazy Socialists and Anarchists: Eugene O'Neill and the Artist Social Problem Play," appears in Eugene O'Neill and His Early Contemporaries, edited by Eileen J. Herrmann and Robert M. Dowling. Eisenhauer is currently professeur d'anglais at Lycée International in Meaux, France.
Jeremy Ekberg teaches composition and world literature at Tennessee Tech University. He has published on the works of Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Vladimir Nabokov. His other interests include playwriting, twentieth-century world literature, postmodernism, existentialism, and war literature. He has written four plays and is writing a book which examines the intersection of ontology and characterology as evinced in select plays of the Theatre of the Absurd.
Sheila Hickey Garvey is professor of Theater at Southern Connecticut State University and director of Theatrical Production for Connecticut's Greater Middletown Chorale. Articles: Eugene O'Neill Review, Theatre Survey, New England Theatre Journal, The Recorder, and Coup de Théâtre, a journal of the Sorbonne. Books: Coeditor and contributor, Jason Robards [End Page 314] Remembered (McFarland, 2001); contributor, A Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work (New York: Facts on File, 2009); collaborator, Eugene O'Neill's New York with Arthur and Barbara Gelb (Eugene O'Neill Society, 2011). She is a past president of the Eugene O'Neill Society (2001-2003).
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