Contributors
- Contributors
L. Michelle Baker earned her PhD from The Catholic University of America in 2008. Her dissertation, Blaming Helen: Beauty and Desire in Contemporary Literature, represents an ongoing effort to reclaim aesthetic philosophy as a viable literary theory that could reconcile scholars with the authors they study and that would demonstrate the value of the humanities to a democratic culture. Dr. Baker continues her study of postmodern literature in the forthcoming manuscript, Dying to Know: Postmodern Permutations of Classical Underworld Paradigms, in which she suggests that traditional spiritual and agricultural narratives about death no longer hold the imaginative power they once did and must be replaced by myths that are more relevant to our industrialized, global society. Future projects include a structural poetics of Derek Walcott's Omeros, an exploration of the interrelationship between film and the novel in British and Anglophone literature of the 1990s, and a study of the catalogue as a rhetorical trope for postmodernism.
Jonathan Bolton, Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, is the author of Personal Landscapes: British Poets in Egypt during the Second World War (St. Martin's) and a number of articles on twentieth-century British and Irish literature. His latest book project, Blighted Beginnings: Coming of Age in Independent Ireland (Bucknell UP), will be published later this year.
Graley Herren is a Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, where he specializes in Modern Drama and Modern British and Irish Literature. He is the author of Samuel Beckett's Plays on Film and Television (Palgrave Macmillan), as well as numerous articles on Beckett [End Page 134] and other modern dramatists. He serves on the executive boards for the Comparative Drama Conference and the Samuel Beckett Society, and he edits The Beckett Circle.
Donald E. Morse, Emeritus Professor of English and Rhetoric, Oakland University, Michigan and University Professor of American, Irish, and English Literature, University of Debrecen, Hungary, has been four times Fulbright Professor (1987-1989, 1991-1993) and twice Soros Professor (1990, 1996-1997). He represented the USA on the Bi-lateral Commission to Establish a Hungarian-American Fulbright Commission and served as the first elected Chairman of the Board. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books; among his latest are The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Imagining Being an American (2003), Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry (2006) with C. Bertha and M. Kurdi, and Anatomy of Science Fiction (2006). He has published over 100 scholarly essays, many of them on American, Hungarian, and Irish drama. With the Hungarian scholar, Csilla Bertha, he published Worlds Visible and Invisible (1994), A Small Nation's Contribution to the World (1993), and More Real than Reality: The Fantastic in Irish Literature and the Arts (1991). With Bertha he received Rockefeller Study and Durrell School Fellowships to translate contemporary Hungarian plays into English; which were published as Silenced Voices: Five Hungarian-Transylvanian Plays (2008). In 1999 the University of Debrecen awarded him an Honorary Doctorate and in 2006 he received the Országh László Prize in recognition of his service to Hungarian higher education and his international scholarship. Currently he edits the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.
John Muse is a PhD candidate at Yale, where he teaches courses on theatre and modernism. John's dissertation, "Short Attention Span Theaters: Modernist Theatrical Shorts Since 1880," explores the understudied significance of short experimental drama over the last hundred and thirty years. His other research interests include twentieth-century drama, performance studies from ancient to digital, genre-bending, media studies, and early modern drama.
Lisa Jackson-Schebetta is a PhD candidate in Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism at the University of Washington. Her research interests include theatre's intersections with urban warfare, histories of the body, and civic engagement. Her dissertation project explores representations of Spain in American theatre, dance, and performance, 1931-1939. [End Page 135]
