Contributors
- Contributors
Les Essif is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has most recently published American "Unculture" in French Drama: Homo Americanus and the Post-1960 French Resistance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) in addition to other books and articles in the fields of French/ francophone drama and performance and drama theory and criticism.
Tim Fitzpatrick recently retired from the Department of Performance Studies at the University of Sydney, which he co-founded with colleagues from a range of departments in the 1980s. He has published on Italian theater (particularly Pirandello and the commedia dell'arte), and more recently on Elizabethan and Jacobean staging practices and the architecture of the second Globe playhouse. He is currently working on an Australian Research Council-funded project examining historical rehearsal processes from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries.
Noah D. Guynn is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Davis and Editor at Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval & Renaissance Studies. He is currently completing a book on medieval farce with support from the American Council of Learned Societies.
Theresa D. Kemp is Professor of Women's Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where she teaches courses in early modern British literature, feminist theories, and social justice praxis. She is the author of Women in the Age of Shakespeare (Greenwood, 2010), as well as articles on Anne Askew, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, and Jane Leade. She is also a member of the Feminist Teacher Editorial Collective (University of Illinois Press). Her current research is on feminist publishing in India.
A. J. Knox is a PhD candidate at Tufts University, where he is completing his dissertation on the outer limits of taboos and sexuality in contemporary humor noir. Recently, his work has been published in the flagship issue of Emerging Theatre Research (2013), and he has presented his research throughout the States, as well as in Ireland and Canada. Currently, A. J. is teaching theater at the university level in the Boston area. [End Page 417]
Valerie Barnes Lipscomb is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, where her research focuses on age studies and modern drama. She is co-editor of Staging Age: The Performance of Age in Theatre, Dance, and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Her articles have appeared in such journals as the International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, and the National Women's Studies Association Journal.
Gerhard Poppenberg is Chair of Romance Philology at Ruprecht Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He is the author of Ins Ungebundene: Über Literatur nach Blanchot (M. Niemeyer, 1993), Psyche und Allegorie: Studien zum spanischen Auto sacramental von den Anfängen bis zu Calderón (Fink, 2003), and Die Antinomie des Gesetzes: Der Orest-Mythos in der Antike und der Moderne (Matthes and Seitz, 2013).
Pierre Taminiaux is a Professor of French and Francophone Literature at Georgetown University. He is the author of several scholarly books, including Robert Pinget (Le Seuil, 1994), The Paradox of Photography (Rodopi, 2009), and the forthcoming Littératures Modernistes et Arts d'Avant-Garde (Champion, 2013). He has also co-edited with Katharine Conley a special issue of Yale French Studies entitled Surrealism and its Others (2006), as well as the volume Poésie et Politique au XXe siècle (Hermann, 2011), with Henri Behar.
Jennifer C. Vaught is Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is the author of Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern English Literature (Ashgate, 2008) and Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2012); she is also co-editor of Grief and Gender: 700-1700 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), and Shakespeare and Donne: Generic Hybrids and the Cultural Imaginary (Fordham University Press, 2013); and editor of Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2010).
Alan R. Young is Professor Emeritus at Acadia University. He has published extensively on Atlantic Canadian literature, the Renaissance, Shakespeare and the visual arts, and the afterlife of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century. His most recent books are Hamlet and the Visual Arts, 1709-1900 (University...
