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  • Notes on Contributors

Kati Donovan is an actor, educator, scholar and dramaturg from Philadelphia. Most recently, she presented papers at conferences for the American Literature Association, the Association of Theatre in Higher Education, and the Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium. Kati has previously published in Studies in Musical Theatre. Currently pursuing her PhD in theater at the CUNY Graduate Center, Kati holds a BFA in musical theater from the University of the Arts, an MA in theater from Villanova University, and an MFA in musical theater from San Diego State University.

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 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 University Press. Dowling serves on the editorial board of the Eugene O’Neill Review and the board of directors of the Eugene O’Neill Society.

Thierry Dubost is a professor at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France. He is the author of Struggle, Defeat or Rebirth: Eugene O’Neill’s Vision [End Page 140] of Humanity (McFarland, 1997 [2005]), and The Plays of Thomas Kilroy (McFarland, 2007). He has coedited four books, La Femme Noire américaine, aspects d’une crise d’identité; George Bernard Shaw, un dramaturge engagé; Du Dire à l’Etre: Tensions identitaires dans la littérature nord-américain; Regards sur l’intime en Irlande, and has edited L’Adaptation théâtrale en Irlande de 1970 à 2007, all published by Caen University Press. An English version of this book, Drama Reinvented: Theatre Adaptation in Ireland (1970–2007) was published by Peter Lang in 2012. His translation of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman was published in 1986.

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. 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 lecturer and coordinator, Coventry University Bachelor Programmes Lycée International Bossuet, Lycée International in Meaux, France.

Michael Fenlason is the artistic director of Tucson’s Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. He has directed plays in New York, London, Edinburgh, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Tucson. His plays have been performed in as many places. Michael was also founding member of the Unlikely Theater Company, a theater that produced new plays and classics from the world’s canon while simultaneously raising money for other socially committed, nonprofit charities. The Unlikely Theater Company performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe three times as well as at New York City’s Raw Space. Michael lives and works in Tucson, Arizona.

Sara Gerend is an assistant professor of English at Aurora University in Illinois. Her research interests include British and American modernism and gender studies. She has published essays on works by William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. At Aurora University she teaches courses in composition, interdisciplinary studies, and British and American literature. [End Page 141]

Katie N. Johnson is associate professor of English at Miami University of Ohio, where she specializes in theater, film, and gender studies. Her first book, Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America (Cambridge University Press 2006), was supported by an...

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