Contributors

Contributors SCOTT BOlTWOOD is an Assistant Professor of English at Emory & Henry College in Emory, Virginia, and has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. He has written articles on Augusta Gregory and Dion Boucicault, and is currently completing a book-length study of Brian Friel's plays. RICHARD BOON is Senior Lecturer in.Theatre Studies and Deputy Director of the Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds. His 1991 book Brenton rhe Playwright was the first major study of Howard Brenton's work. He is currently studying the work of Joan Littlewood. JAMES FRIEZE is a lecturer in drama and theatre studies at John Moores University in Liverpool, U.K., and a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin -Madison, with a dissertation entitled "The Articulation of Difference: Staging Identity in the United States, 1986-1992." His articles and reviews have appeared in Performing Arts Journal, Thearre Journal, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Theatre Studies. ANGElETTA KM GOURDINE is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University, where she teaches courses in African-American and Diaspora women's literature. She is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled Writing Sistered Kin: Blackwomen's Diaspora Consciousness. CHRISTINA HAUCK is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Kansas State University. PATRICK CalM HOGAN is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Politics of InterpretaModern Drama, 41 (1998) 666 Contributors tion (1990), Joyce, Milton, and the Theory ofInfluence (1995), and On Interpretation : Meaning and Inference in Law, Psychoanalysis, and Literature (1996). LUCY MELBOURNE holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Studies at Saint Augustine's College in Raleigh, N.C. She is the author of Double Heart: Explicit and Implicit Texts in Bellow, Camus and Kafka, a study of narrative structure. BENILOE MONTGOMERY is Assistant Professor of Drama and Coordinator of Drama and Dance at Dowling College, Oakdale, New York. In addition to Modern Drama, his work has appeared in Twentieth Century Literature, Eighteenth -Century Studies, Journal of the American Academy of Religions, and, most recently, Toby Zinman's Terrence McNally: A Casebook. TERRY OTTEN, Professor of English at Wittenberg University, has published essays in various journals and anthologies, as well as three books: The Deserted Stage: The Search for Dramatic Form in Nineteenth-Century England; After Innocence: Visions of the Fall in Modern Literature; and The Crime of Innocence in the Fiction of Toni Morrison. He was the 1988 CASE Ohio Professor of the Year and a National Bronze Medalist. AMANDA PRICE is a Lecturer in the Workshop Theatre, School of English, at the University of Leeds. She is currently preparing a study of Howard Barker'S later plays and co-editing Necessary Fictions, a collection of essays that explore the formal links among nations, nationalism, and twentieth-century theatre practice. JOHN MCKELLaR REID teaches in the School of Literary Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. JACQUELINE THOMAS is Professor of French at Texas A&M University-Kingsville , where she has been teaching since 1981. She received her EdD from Texas A&M University in 1983, with a dissertation entitled "A Study to Determine the Role of Prior Linguistic Experience in Second and Third Language Learning." ...