Contributors
- Contributors
Niall Brennan recently received his PhD in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Niall lives in New York City and will join the adjunct faculty of the Department of Communication at Fairfield University in January 2013.
Matthew Buckley is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of Tragedy Walks the Streets: The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama (2006) and articles in Modern Drama, Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, Studies in Romanticism, and Victorian Studies. His current book project is Becoming Melodramatic, a study of the formal development of early stage melodrama.
Jeffrey N. Cox is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Humanities at the University of Colorado Boulder where he is also the Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs. His work on the drama includes In the Shadows of Romance: Romantic Tragic Drama in Germany, England, and France and the Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama co-edited with Michael Gamer. He received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats-Shelley Association of America in 2009.
Dana Van Kooy teaches in the Department of English and the Program of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has written reviews for Theatre Journal and Romantic Circles and has published on topics ranging from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Hellas to Sir Walter Scott’s The Doom of Devorgoil. Her book, Shelley’s Radical Stages, is under contract with Ashgate Press.
Bradley Rogers is ACLS New Faculty Fellow in the Theatre Studies Department at Duke University. After receiving his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute of the University of Toronto. He is currently completing a book manuscript on melodrama, musical theatre, and the politics of [End Page 587] disintegration. The article in this volume was written in part during his residency at the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas.
Emma Raub is a recent graduate from the Literatures in English doctoral program at Rutgers University. Her dissertation, “Muteness and Modern Drama,” explores silence and materiality on the modern stage, from melodrama’s mute figure through symbolism and expressionism. Her research interests include nineteenth-and early twentieth-century drama and performance, focusing on theatre history and the physical stage.
Linda Williams is Professor of Film and Media (and Rhetoric) at UC Berkeley where she teaches courses on melodrama, sexual imagery. and serial television. She is the author of Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson (Princeton, 2001) and Screening Sex (Duke, 2008).
Matthew Wilson Smith is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is the author of The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace (2007) and the editor of Georg Büchner: The Major Works (2012). His articles on theatre, opera, film, and digital performance have appeared widely. [End Page 588]
