Notes on Contributors
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PATRICK CHURA is professor of English at the University of Akron, where he teaches courses in American literature. His recent book Thoreau the Land Surveyor won the College English Association of Ohio’s 2012 Dasher Award for literary scholarship. He has been a Peace Corps volunteer in the Republic of Lithuania and is a two-time Fulbright lecturer, teaching in Lithuania in 2009 and in the United Kingdom in 2012.
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 of Humanity (McFarland, 1997 [2005]) and The Plays of Thomas Kilroy (McFarland, 2007). He has coedited five 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-américaine; Regards sur l’intime en Irlande: Music and the Irish Imagination, 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 to 2007), was published by Peter Lang in 2012. His translation of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman was published in 1986.
KURT EISEN is professor of English and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Tennessee Tech University, where he teaches courses in world literature and drama. He holds a PhD from Boston University and published a revised version of his dissertation in 1994 as The Inner Strength [End Page 283] of Opposites: O’Neill’s Novelistic Drama and the Melodramatic Imagination. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Cambridge Companion to Eugene O’Neill and in journals such as Modern Drama, Comparative Drama, American Literature, Studies in the American Renaissance, South Central Review, among others, and in the Eugene O’Neill Review, of which he has been book editor since 2004. He is the immediate past president of the Eugene O’Neill Society.
HOURIYEH FARHOUDI is a visiting professor of English language and literature at Azad University of Damavand, Iran. She holds a master of arts in English literature from Azad University, Central Tehran Branch. She teaches undergraduate courses in English literature, including poetry, drama, and fiction. She is head of the English Department at Sama College of Damavand and was previously a visiting professor at Azad University of Roudehen. She has worked as a part-time instructor of English language at different language schools in Tehran since she was seventeen years of age. She takes particular interest in American drama on which she has published an article and is currently working on an article analyzing Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie from a Foucauldian critical viewpoint.
SHEILA HICKEY GARVEY, professor of theater at Southern Connecticut State University, has received numerous awards from the John F. Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for her direction of university productions She received the New England Theatre Conference’s Moss Hart Award and is a lifetime member of NETC’s College of Fellows. As resident director of Connecticut’s Greater Middletown Chorale she staged the world premiere of the opera Letter from Italy, 1944 by Sarah Meneely Kyder and Nancy Fitzhugh Meneely. She is past president of the Eugene O’Neill Society and has published articles in the Eugene O’Neill Review, Theatre Survey, New England Theatre Journal, The Recorder, Coup de Théâtre, A Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill, and Jason Robards Remembered, which she also edited. She collaborated with Arthur and Barbara Gelb on Eugene O’Neill’s New York, a guidebook for attendees at the 2011 International Conference of the Eugene O’Neill Society.
VICTOR HOLTCAMP earned dual degrees in history and drama at the University of Washington, a master’s degree from Brown University, and completed his PhD at the University of Washington in 2003. He is currently an assistant professor of theater at Tulane University. Major areas of study include [End Page 284] the intersections of culture and theatre, Shakespeare, acting pedagogy, and modern US theater history. He is currently at work on a book project: “Brave New...
