Contributors
- Contributors
Susan C. W. Abbotson is Professor of English at Rhode Island College, where she mostly teaches drama. She is the author of A Critical Companion to Arthur Miller (Facts on File, 2007) and Student Companion to Arthur Miller (Greenwood, 2000), and numerous articles on Arthur Miller. She also authored Thematic Guide to Modern Drama (Greenwood, 2003), Masterpieces of Twentieth Century American Drama (Greenwood, 2005), and the forthcoming Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1950s (Methuen, 2017). She has published articles on Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard, Mae West, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, August Wilson, Eugene O’Neill, and Paula Vogel in a variety of books and journals.
Alireza Fakhrkonandeh is a Lecturer in Contemporary and Modern Drama and Theatre at Southampton University. He received his PhD from The University of Warwick. He has widely published on Howard Barker’s work and contemporary English and Persian poetry. His first monograph, entitled “Howard Barker’s Theatre of Aporias: From a Phenomenology of the Body to an Ontology of the Flesh,” is under review. He is the academic translator of Howard Barker’s works into Persian and has translated more than ten plays and theoretical works by Barker into Persian. Currently, he is working on his second monograph, provisionally entitled “Evental Ontology and Affective Aesthetic in Howard Barker’s Tragic Theatre.”
Rebecca Cameron is Associate Professor of English at DePaul University, where she teaches twentieth-century British literature. Her research focuses primarily on modern British drama, and she has recently published articles on suffrage drama, women playwrights of the interwar period, the reception of Noel Coward, and the role of games in modern dramatic works.
Vanessa I. Corredera is Assistant Professor of English at Andrews University. Her most recent publications include an interrogation of the intersection between Shakespeare and race in the podcast Serial in Shakespeare Quarterly and an analysis of Tamburlaine Part 1’s depiction of astrological physiognomy and the signification of the face in Early Modern Literary Studies. She is currently working on a book-length project exploring the contemporary racial discourses privileged by modern adaptations and appropriations of Othello. [End Page 433]
John Garrison is Associate Professor of English at Carroll University. He is the author of Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance (Routledge, 2014) and Glass (Bloomsbury, 2015). With Kyle Pivetti, he is co-editor of Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England: Literature and the Erotics of Recollection (Routledge, 2015). He currently is completing a book-length study of Shakespeare’s depictions of the afterlife.
Scott Maisano is Associate Professor of English at The University of Massachusetts Boston. His recent essays include “Now,” about Einsteinian spacetime in The Winter’s Tale, for Early Modern Theatricality (Oxford University Press, 2014), and “Shakespeare’s Revolution: The Tempest as Scientific Romance,” about Prospero’s particle physics and atomic experiments, for The Tempest: A Critical Reader (Bloomsbury/Arden Shakespeare, 2014). He is currently writing a new Shakespearean comedy entitled Enter Nurse, or, Love’s Labour’s Won.
David Nicol is an Associate Professor at the Fountain School of Performing Arts, Dalhousie University. He is the author of Middleton and Rowley: Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse (University of Toronto Press, 2012) and has published articles on the plays of William Rowley in Cahiers Élisabéthains, Comparative Drama, Early Theatre, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Notes and Queries, and Studies in English Literature.
Shouhua Qi is Professor of English at Western Connecticut State University. Among Qi’s publications are more than ten books of fiction, nonfiction, literary studies, and translation, as well as many journal articles. His latest books include The Brontë Sisters in OtherWor(l)ds (coeditor and contributing author; 2014) and Western Literature in China and the Translation of a Nation (2012), both published by Palgrave Macmillan. Qi’s forthcoming book is Adapting Western Classics for the Chinese Stage (Routledge, 2018).
Deborah Ross, Professor of English at Hawai‘i Pacific University, has written on issues of gender and power in a wide range of texts, from the Odyssey to Disney, including The Excellence of Falsehood (The University Press of Kentucky, 1991), a study of the birth of the English novel. She contributed “On the Trail of the Butterfly...
