Contributors
- Contributors
Claudia Barnett is a Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University and has taught in Western Michigan University's Prague Summer Program. Her previous Modern Drama articles include studies of plays by Adrienne Kennedy, Phyllis Nagy, and Shelagh Stephenson. As playwright-in-residence at Tennessee Repertory Theatre, she wrote No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson's Sister. Venus Theatre presented a staged reading of her play Another Manhattan at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Labor Day 2010.
Michael Bogucki is a lecturer and postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently completing a book about the dramatic experiments of George Moore, J.M. Synge, and James Joyce: Brutal Phantoms: Embodiment, Theatricality, and Irish Naturalism.
Maria Doyle is Associate Professor of English at the University of West Georgia where she teaches drama along with British and Irish literature. Her work on Marina Carr and other Irish playwrights, including Martin McDonagh and Stewart Parker, has appeared previously in Theater Journal, New Hibernia Review, and Modern Drama, in addition to several essay collections.
Bernard F. Dukore, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts and Humanities at Virginia Tech, is author and editor of numerous books and articles on drama, theatre, and cinema, most recently Shaw's Theater and Sam Peckinpah's Feature Films. He has also written on Pinter, Barnes, Ibsen, Brecht, Witkiewicz, and Wilder, among others, and has directed plays by most of these dramatists and others.
Ju Yon Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in the Program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. Her dissertation, "Disappearing Acts and Uncanny Materializations: Performances of the Racial Mundane," examines how various theatrical, literary, and cinematic depictions of [End Page 600] Asians and Asian Americans engaging in quotidian behaviours such as eating, studying, and doing chores manifest interlinked social and aesthetic concerns about the possibility of erasing racial difference. Her research interests include modern and contemporary drama, Asian American theatre and literature, comparatives studies of race and ethnicity, and theories of performance and the everyday.
Jeff Porter is the author of Oppenheimer Is Watching Me (2007). His essays have appeared in Antioch Review, Isotope, Northwest Review, Shenandoah, Missouri Review, Hotel Amerika, Contemporary Literature, and other journals. He is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Iowa and specializes in literary non-fiction, documentary film, digital media, and postmodernism. His current project, The Book of Sound, focuses on the history and practice of radiophonic literature.
Tammis Thomas is an Associate Professor at the University of Houston-Downtown, where she teaches courses on Holocaust literature, the problem of evil, and the construction of modern masculinity in German and English literature. She has published on epistemologies of the closet, the Auschwitz borderlands, and literary representations of Auschwitz in Tadeusz Borowski's narratives. [End Page 601]
