Contributors

Contributors NANDI BHATIA is associate professor of postcolonial literature and theory in the English Department, University of Western Ontario. She has a forthcoming book from the University of Michigan Press titled Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance: Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Her work on British imperial and South Asian literatures and cultures has also appeared in Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, Centennial Review, Alif, and a number of edited collections. MARVIN CARLSO N 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 books and essays on the history of the theatre. theatre and performance theory. and dramatic literature. His most recent book, The Haunted Stage, won the Joseph A. Calloway Prize for 2002. UNA C HA UDHURI is professor of English and drama at New York University. She is the author of No Man's Stage: A Semiotic Study ofJean Genet's Plays (UMI Research Press, 1986) and Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama (University of Michigan Press, 1985), editor of Rachel's Brain and Other Storms: The Petformance Scripts of Rachel Rosenthal (Continuum, 200t), coeditor of Land/Scape/Theater (University of Michigan, 2002), and guest editor of a special issue of Yale's Theater magazine on "Theater and Ecology" (25", 1995)· MICHAL KOBIALKA is a Chair and Professor of Theatre at the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota. His articles and reviews have been published in Arsberetning (Denmark), Assaph (Israel), Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Journal of Theatre and Drama (Israel), Medieval Perspectives, Petforming Arts Journal, Theatre Annual, The Drama Modern Drama, 46:4 (Winter 2003) 678 Contributors Review, Theatre Journal, Theatre History Studies, Theatre Nordic Studies (Sweden), Theatre Research International (England), Theatre Survey, Slavic and East European Journal, Soviet and East-European Performance, and Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts. He has presented papers on medieval and contemporary European theatre and theatre historiography at various regional. national, and international conferences. His book on Tadeusz Kantor's theatre, A Journey through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos , t944-1990, was published by University of California Press in 1993. He is the editor of OfBorders alld Thresholds: Theatre History, Practice, and Theory (University of Minnesota Press, (999) and a co-editor (with Barbara Hanawalt) of Medieval Practices of Space (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). His book on early medieval drama and theatre, This Is My Body: Representational Practices in the Early Middle Ages, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 1999. (The book received the 2000 ATHE Annual Research Award for Outstanding Book in Theatre Practice and Pedagogy.) GAY MCAULEY is an Honorary Professor in the Department of Perfonnance Studies at the University of Sydney. She taught in the French Department for many years before establishing Perfonnance Studies as an interdisciplinary centre. Her major research and teaching interests include perfonnance analysis , participant observation of rehearsal, documentation of performance. the study of the spectator in live performance, and problems of translation for the stage. Her book Space in Pe/formance was awarded the Rob Jordan Prize by the Australasian Drama Studies Association in 1999. Her current research concerns site-based performance, with particular emphasis on the role of place and memory. MICHAEL MCKINNIE tcaches in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, where he participates in the Performance and the Public Research Initiative. His research focuses primarily on theatre and urban development and theatre and the state. l'ublications include articles and reviews in Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Essays Oil Canadian Writing, Theatre Research in COllado, Essays in Theatre and Canadian Theatre Review. He is a past recipient of the Distinguished Dissertation Award from the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, and current projects include a book on the relationship between theatre and its urban environment in Toronto since t967 and a study of the relationship between state labourmarket policy and arts funding in Canada during the I 970S (supported by the Faculty Research Program of the Government of Canada). DEAN WILCOX teaches theatre history, dramatic literature, and such subjects as chaos theory...