Notes on Contributors
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zander brietzke has taught at Columbia University, Montclair State, The College of Wooster and Lehigh University. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Failure: Dynamic Structure in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill (McFarland, 2001), American Drama in the Age of Film (Alabama, 2007), and an instructor’s manual, Teaching with the Norton Anthology of Drama (2009, 2013). An ex-president of the Eugene O’Neill Society, Zander edited the Eugene O’Neill Review at Suffolk University in Boston from 2004 to 2010. Currently, he is writing a manuscript on dramatic action in Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg and a chapter on O’Neill in a book on American playwriting in the 1940s (Methuen), edited by Felicia Hardison Londré.
johan callens holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel where he is professor of English. He has published widely on American drama and performance. Journals in which his essays have appeared include Text and Performance Quarterly, Theatre Research International, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Modern Drama, The Drama Review, Theatre Journal and PAJ: A Journal of Performance & Art. His books include The Wooster Group and Its Traditions (2004), Dis/Figuring Sam Shepard (2007) and Crossings: David Mamet’s Work in Different Genres and Media (2009). More recently he coedited Dramaturgies in the New Millennium: Relationality, Performativity, and Potentiality (2014). [End Page 111]
vivian casper is an associate professor of English at the Texas Woman’s University in Denton. She holds a PhD in English from Rice University. In addition to advising undergraduate English majors, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in British literature (especially the Romantic and Victorian poets); genre courses in poetry, drama (Shakespeare, Restoration, and eighteenth-century, modern, American, and African American), and short fiction; and advanced grammar and composition. She has published in the Eugene O’Neill Review and the Arthur Miller Journal.
robert m. dowling is professor of English at Central Connecticut State University and serves on the editorial board of the Eugene O’Neill Review and the board of directors of the Eugene O’Neill Society. His previous books include Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem (2007), the two-volume Critical Companion to Eugene O’Neill (2009), and Eugene O’Neill and His Early Contemporaries: Bohemians, Radicals, Progressives, and the Avant Garde (2011, co-edited with Eileen Herrmann). Dowling is the editor of “Celtic Twilight: 21st-Century Irish Americans on Eugene O’Neill” (2010), a folio for the online journal of literature and the arts Drunken Boat. His latest projects include a compendium of O’Neill’s opening night reviews, Eugene O’Neill: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge University Press, 2014, coedited with Jackson R. Bryer), and his biography Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts (Yale University Press, 2014).
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 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.
katie n. johnson is associate professor of English and an affiliate of Film and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Miami University of Ohio. She is the author of Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America (Cambridge, 2006), Sex for Sale: Six Progressive-Era Brothel Drama Plays [End Page 112] (University of Iowa Press, 2015), and numerous articles and book chapters on theater, performance, film, and US culture. Her research for this essay was supported by a Wardlaw Research Fellowship from the Texas Collection, Baylor University.
george monteiro has contributed to the scholarship on numerous nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Henry...
