The Performance of Power: Theatrical Discourse and Politics

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Nina Auerbach is Morton Kornreich Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Among her books are Women and the Demon, Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time, and Private Theatricals: The Lives ofthe Victorians. She has lectured and written widely on Victorian literature and the theater in Victorian England. Gregory W. Bredbeck is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. This essay is extracted from a forthcoming book entitled Sodomy and Interpretation: Marlowe to Milton. Sarah Bryant-Bertail is assistant professor in the School of Drama, University of Washington. She has published widely on epic theater and semiotics. She is currently completing a book on spatiotemporality in the epic theater. Janice Carlisle, Tulane University, has published The Sense of an Audience: Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot at Mid-Century (University of Georgia Press, 1981) as well as numerous essays on Charlotte Bronte, Eliot, Trollope, Dickens, and Mill in such journals as ELH, Victorian Studies, Studies in the Novel, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Her book John Stuart Mill and the Writing of Character is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press. Marvin Carlson is the Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of many articles and books on theater history and theater, the most recent being Places of Performance and Theatre Semiotics: Signs of Life (both 1989). Sue-Ellen Case is professor of English, University of California , Riverside. A past editor of Theatre Journal, she has published widely 28r 282 : Notes on Contributors on feminist and German theater. Her books are Feminism and Theatre and the anthology Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre. She is currently completing a book on feminist theory, lesbian theory, and performance. Gay Gibson Cima is associate professor at Georgetown University . She has published articles on modern and contemporary drama in performance and on feminist theater history. She has just completed a book manuscript entitled "Authorizing Action: The Playwright and Performance from Ibsen to Beckett." J. Ellen Gainor is assistant professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at Cornell University. She has published articles and reviews in Theatre Journal, the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, the New Eng/and Theatre Journal, and Paideuma. Her book Shaw's Daughters : Discourses of Gender and Female Identity in the Work of George Bernard Shaw is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press. Spencer Golub, associate professor of theatre and comparative literature at Brown University, has published widely on the subject of Russian theater and drama. He is the author of Evreinov: The Theatre of Paradox and Transformation and is presently at work on a study of Soviet theatrical iconography. Kim F. Hall is assistant professor of English at Georgetown University. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled Acknowledging Things of Darkness: Race, Gender and Power in Early Modern England, which explores the ways "aesthetic" tropes of blackness are informed and altered by changing conceptions of race, gender, and empire in the Renaissance. Bruce A. McConachie teaches courses in theater and American studies at the College of William and Mary. He is the co-editor of Theatre for Working-Class Audiences in the United States, I830-I980 and Interpreting the Theatrical Past: Essays in the Historiography of Performance. He has also published essays on theater historiography and American theater history in several interdisciplinary journals and anthologies. Notes on Contributors : 283 Jeffrey D. Mason teaches performance and theater studies at California State University, Bakersfield. He is writing a study of myth and ideology in nineteenth-century American melodrama. Thomas Postlewait is associate professor of theater and drama at Indiana University. He is the author of Prophet of the New Drama: William Archer and the Ibsen Campaign and co-editor of Interpreting the Theatrical Past. Janelle Reinelt is professor of theater arts at California State University, Sacramento, and is the former book review editor of Theatre Journal. Critical Theory and Performance, edited with Joseph Roach, is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press. She is currently writing a book on Brecht and the contemporary British theater. Joseph Roach, Tulane University, has published The Player's Passion: Studies in the Science ofActing as well as articles on the history of the theater for Theatre Survey and Theatre Journal. With Janelle Reinelt he is editing Critical Theory and Performance, forthcoming from the University of Michigan...