Contributors

Contributors VERONIKA AMBROS is an Associate Professor in the Department of S1avic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. After emigrating from Prague to Berlin, she obtained her PhD (Berlin) and taught at the Free University, Berlin. In 1983 she became a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, and since 1989 she has been a full member of both Slavic and Comparative Literatures departmeOls as well as being cross-listed with Cinema Studies and the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. Her current work includes a book-length project, OfClowns, Scholars, Objects and other Signs: The Experimental Stage in the Prague School Semiotics ofDrama and Theatre. ELAINE ASTON is Professor of Contemporary Perfonnance at Lancaster Uni· versity, UK where she teaches and researches feminist theatre, theory, and practice. Her publications include Sarah Bernhardt (1989), Theatre as SignSystenr ' (with George Savona, t99t), An Ill/roduction 10 Feminism and Theatre (1995), Caryl Churchill ([997; 2oo t) and Feminist Theatre Practice (1999). She is currently completing Feminist Views on the English Stage: Women Playwrights, 1990-2000 for Cambridge University Press. REZA BARAHENI is a poet and novelist who was born in Tabriz, Iran. Two of his novels, Les Saisons en enfer du jeune Ayyliz and SJzeherazade et Son Ramancier (second edition), were recently published in France. Reza Baraheni was the first co-recipient of the Scholars-At-Risk Fellowship at the University of Toronto. He is currently concluding a two-year term as President of PEN Canada and is a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. WOON-P[NG CHIN (CHtN W OON PtNG) is a poet, playwright, and performer who has read and performed her work widely in Asia, the United States, and Modern Drama, 46:1 (Spring 2003) 147 CONTRIBUTORS Australia. Her plays include: Details Cannot Body Wants (Singapore, 1992 and New York City, 1997); From San Jose 10 San Jose (Singapore, 1997); Sharp Hurt (Singapore, 1999); Diary of a Madwoman (Singapore, 1996 and New York City, 2000); and Psycho Wracks (Tokyo, 2001 and New York City, 2001). She has published two volumes of poetry, The Naturalization of Camellia Song (Times Editions, 1993) and In My Mother's Dream (Landmark Books, 1999). Her plays and poems have been published in several anthologies including Asian American Literature; On a Bed of Rice; Westerly Looks 10 Asia; Women's Inspirations; Literature; (Post)Colonial Stages; and Postcolonial Plays. Chin Woon Ping teaches American and Comparative Literature and Asian American Literature and Performance at Dartmouth College. DANIELLE COUTURE is completing her dissertation on the Russian avant-garde at the University of Toronto. JANICE B. GROSS is Seth Richards Professor in Modem Languages and Chair of the French Department at Grinnell College. Her current work examines how francophone theatre expresses the problematic of cultural identity and memory in the context of France and Algeria. Using interviews with Algerian playwrights in Paris, she has recently published on Slimane Benaissa's drama of terrorism in Theatre Journal and on the representation of women in Fatima Gallaire's plays. Forthcoming work includes a study of approaches to staging religion in works by Mohamed Kacimi and Slimane Benai'ssa. Her essays on French women's writing for theatre have appeared in Modern Drama and French Review. StLVIJA JESTROVtC received her doctoral degree at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto. She holds an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of English, York University (Toronto). Her articles have appeared in Substance; Canadian Theatre Review; Balagan: Slavisches Drama, Theater und Kino; Body, Space, Technology Journal, and Toronto Slavic Quarterly. Currently, she is completing her book Theatre of Estrangement and working on the SSHRC funded project Avant-garde and the City. Her stage and radio plays have been professionally produced in Canada and ex-Yugoslavia. She is the co-convenor of the International Conference on Theatre and Exile held at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama (University of Toronto). DRAGAN KLAIC teaches Arts and Cultural Policy at the University of Leiden and serves as a Permanent Fellow of Felix Meritis Foundation in Amsterdam. Educated in dramaturgy in Belgrade and with a doctorate in theatre history and dramatic criticism from Yale...