Contributors
- Contributors
Logan J. Connors is Associate Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures at the University of Miami. He the author of Dramatic Battles in Eighteenth-Century France (2012), a critical edition of Pierre-Laurent De Belloy’s tragedy, Le Siège de Calais (2014), and The Emergence of a Theatrical Science of Man in France (2020). During academic year 2019–2020, he is an invited fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Collegium) in Lyon, France, where he is working on a new project about the diverse relationships between theatre and the military in France and its colonies from 1650 to 1815.
Amy Cook is the author of Building Character: The Art and Science of Casting (University of Michigan Press 2018), Shakespearean Neuroplay: Reinvigorating the Study of Dramatic Texts and Performance through Cognitive Science (Palgrave Macmillan 2010), and co-editor (with Rhonda Blair) of Theatre, Performance and Cognition (Methuen 2016). Her next book, “Shakespearean Futures: Casting the Bodies of Tomorrow on Shakespeare’s Stages Today,” is under contract with the Elements Series of Cambridge Press. She is the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and a Professor of English at Stony Brook University.
James H. Cox holds the Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professorship in English at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published three books on Native American literature from 1920 to the present, and he co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature (2014) with Daniel Heath Justice of the University of British Columbia. He served as the co-editor of Studies in American Indian Literatures from 2007 to 2012 and has served as the co-editor of Texas Studies in Literature and Language since 2016.
Melanie Dreyer-Lude is a theatre artist/scholar specializing in international theater collaboration and multidisciplinary projects. Fluent in German, Dreyer-Lude translates and directs contemporary German plays, which have been produced in the United States and Canada and published in international magazines and anthologies. A two-time Fulbright scholar, her current research focuses on refugee stories, and adapting and staging traditional folktales with the Ndere Center in Kampala, Uganda. She continues to enjoy an ongoing relationship with Cornell University, where she regularly gives workshops on research communication skills. She is Chair of the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta and lives and works in Edmonton, Alberta Canada.
James Fisher is Professor of Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has directed and/or acted in over 150 theatre productions and has also author several books, including The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) and Understanding Tony Kushner (University of South Carolina Press, 2008). He has also published numerous essays, edited six volumes of The Puppetry Yearbook, and edited three collections of essays.
Anne Greenfield is Associate Professor of English at Valdosta State University. She edited the book collections Interpreting Sexual Violence: 1660–1800 (Pickering & Chatto 2013) and Castration, Impotence, and Emasculation in the Long Eighteenth Century (Routledge 2020), and she has published articles on Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, especially drama. She is Editor-in-Chief of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research.
Maki Isaka teaches gender studies and Japanese theatre and literature at the University of Minnesota. Author of Secrecy in Japanese Arts, Onnagata: A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater, and articles on shingeki (New Theatre), gender, etc., Isaka currently works on the performance and theoretical implications of female chanters of “all-male” gidayû-music: the audio component of the four-century-old, all-male puppet-theatre in Japan. Her “‘Melodious Singing Voice’ According to Koshikô: Doing Traditional ‘All-Male’ Gidayû-Music as a Female Chanter in Contemporary Japan” is forthcoming in Catherine Burroughs and J Ellen Gainor, eds., The Routledge Anthology of Women’s Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism.
Emma Lipton is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri. She is completing a book on the relationship between legal and dramatic ideas of witnessing in the York plays. Her work has appeared in Studies of the Age of Chaucer, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Chaucer Review and elsewhere. She has published Affections of the Mind: The Politics of Sacramental...
