Contributors
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JENNIFER BUCKLEY is assistant professor of English and rhetoric at the University of Iowa, where she teaches and writes about modern drama, theater, and print cultures. Her essays have appeared in Theatre Survey, Comparative Drama, and Modernism/modernity. She is currently completing her book manuscript, Every Page Must Explode: Avant-Garde Performance in Print.
BRETT GAMBOA is assistant professor of English at Dartmouth College, where he teaches courses in Shakespeare and modern drama. He has published essays and reviews on Shakespeare in performance in several books and journals and is providing notes on the performance of Shakespeare’s plays for the new edition of the Norton Shakespeare. He is currently completing a book about doubling roles in Shakespeare. He also directs plays, both professionally and on campus, including ten by Shakespeare.
ALICE MCEWAN is a doctoral candidate at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, where she is completing a PhD on the history of the collections and interiors at Shaw’s Corner. Her thesis, titled “Towards a Biography of Bernard Shaw at Shaw’s Corner: Artefacts, Spaces, and Self-Fashioning,” argues that Shaw’s engagement with visual and material culture significantly enhances our understanding of his life and work. Her project is funded by the National Trust and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
LAWRENCE SWITZKY is an assistant professor of English and drama at the University of Toronto. He has published essays on modern drama, [End Page 127] modernism across the arts, and contemporary performance in SHAW, Modern Drama, TDR, Opera Quarterly, Canadian Theatre Review, and several collections and encyclopedias. His manuscript, “The Rise of the Director: Negotiations with the Material World, 1880–1956,” is under contract with Northwestern University Press.
MATTHEW YDE specializes in modern and contemporary theater and drama, particularly in relation to politics, philosophy, and religion. His first book, Bernard Shaw and Totalitarianism: Longing for Utopia, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. He has published articles in Modern Drama and SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies as well as a book chapter on Krzysztof Kieślowski’s ten-hour film The Decalogue. He is currently writing a monograph on contemporary American dramatist Stephen Adly Guirgis. He is also an accomplished actor and director, and most recently directed Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece Waiting for Godot at his alma mater, Ohio State University. He graduated with a PhD in theatre history, literature and criticism from Ohio State in 2011, and is currently visiting assistant professor of Theatre History and Criticism in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of New Mexico.
CHRISTA ZORN, professor of English at Indiana University Southeast, is originally from Hamburg, Germany, and received her PhD from the University of Florida. She teaches courses in British and European literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, critical theory, transatlantic studies, and women’s literature. She is the author of Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History and the Victorian Female Intellectual, published in 2003 by Ohio University Press, and co-editor with Herward Sieberg of The Anglo-German Correspondence of Vernon Lee and Irene Forbes-Mosse during World War I: Women Writers’ Friendship Transcending Enemy Lines (Mellen, 2014). She has also published several articles on Vernon Lee, Bernard Shaw, Lou Andreas-Salomé, European theater in World War I, and aesthetic theories. [End Page 128]
