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  • Contributors

Richard Finkelstein is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Mary Washington. He has written on Renaissance drama, poetry, religion, the history of the book, and on Shakespearean appropriations.

Sara Freeman is Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Oregon and the coeditor of International Dramaturgy: Translation and Transformations in the Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker. Her research on alternative British theater companies and on contemporary playwrights has been published in Theatre Survey, New Theatre Quarterly, Contemporary Theatre Review, Modern Drama, and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Also a dramaturg and director, she has recently directed productions of Eurydice and Around the World in 80 Days. She will be contributing a chapter on Wertenbaker to Methuen's new Decades of British Playwriting series.

Vicki L. Hamblin is Professor of French and Chair of the Modern and Classical Languages Department at Western Washington University. Her research focuses on late medieval French theater and more specifically on the performance features of French mystery plays. She has published one critical edition and a variety of articles in both journals and edited volumes that specialize in medieval theater. A second book, entitled Saints at Play: The Performance Features of French Hagiographic Mystery Plays, will be published soon by Medieval Institute Publications.

Maroula Joannou is Professor of Literary History and Women's Writing at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England. She is the author of 'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Window': Women's Writing, Feminism and Social Change, 1918-1938 and Contemporary Women's Writing: From the 'Golden Notebook' to 'The Color Purple'. She has edited Women Writers [End Page 253] of the l930s: Gender, Politics, and History, coedited with June Purvis The Women's Suffrage Movement: New Critical Essays and with David Margolies Heart of the Heartless World: Essays in Memory of Margot Heinemann. She is currently editing volume 8 of The Palgrave History of British Women's Writing 1920-1945.

James Nikopoulos is about to complete his PhD in comparative literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. He teaches literature at Lehman College and Italian at Hunter College. He has published on Pirandello, T. S. Eliot, and C. P. Cavafy and has an article forthcoming in Italica on Antonioni's film L'avventura. [End Page 254]

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