Notes on Contributors--1998

Thomas P. Adler

Dr. Robert Bray is the founding editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review and the Director of the Tennessee Williams Scholars' Conference, held each year in New Orleans. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Tennessee Williams and wrote the introductions for the latest editions of The Glass Menagerie and Vieux Carré. He is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.

Bert Cardullo

Dr. George W Crandell is Head of the English Department at Auburn University, where he teaches courses on American drama. He has published articles on American humor and modern drama, as well as Tennessee Williams: A Descriptive Bibliography and The Critical Response to Tennessee Williams. He is currently working on a descriptive bibliography of the works of Arthur Miller.

Gilbert Debusscher is Professor of English and American Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters at the University of Brussels in Belgium. He is the author or editor of books and articles on Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, Jack Richardson, Edward Bond, Willy Russell, and avant-garde drama.

Albert J. Devlin

The late Linda Dorff was Assistant Professor of Theatre History, Theory and Criticism in the School of Theatre at the University of Houston. She received her Ph.D. from New York University in 1997. In addition to editing a book of interviews, Working with Tennessee, she produced and directed a documentary film for public television entitled Tennessee Williams' Dragon Country: The Late Plays. She was Advisor to the Hartford Stage Company's decade-long Tennessee Williams Marathon.

Robert J. Grosch

Allean Hale is an adjunct professor of theater at the University of Illinois-Urbana. She is a specialist in Tennessee Williams studies, with numerous publications on the playwright. She was research assistant on the Leverich authorized biography, Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams and has been a consultant on four television documentaries on Williams. Recently, Hale has researched and edited four previously unpublished Williams plays for New Directions: The Notebook of Trigorin, Not About Nightingales, Stairs to the Roof, and Fugitive Kind.

Dr. Philip Kolin is Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi and the author of over twenty-five books and 175 articles. He is the editor of several Tennessee Williams guides and is currently editing The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia. He has also served as guest editor for special issues on Tennessee Williams in Southern Quarterly, Mississippi Quarterly, and Studies in American Drama.

Dr. R. Brian Parker is Professor Emeritus of English at Trinity College, University of Toronto, where he served as founding Director of the Graduate Drama Center, Head of Graduate English Studies, and Vice Provost of Trinity College. His major research is in Renaissance drama, and he has also published widely on the works of Tennessee Williams and other dramatists.

James Schlatter

Dr. Dean Shackelford is Associate Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Southeast Missouri State University. He is presently working on a book-length study of Williams, and he has also published on Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, William Faulkner, and Harper Lee, among others, in such journals as Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Quarterly, and The Tennessee Williams Annual Review.

Nancy M. Tischler