Notes on Contributors

Below are listed all of the contributors to The Tennessee Williams Annual Review since the premier issue in 1998.

Thomas P. Adler

Dr. Darrell Bourque is Professor of English at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette in the Department of English and the Interdisciplinary Humanities program and is acting Head of the English Department. His latest book of poems, Burnt Water Suite, was published by Wings Press in 1999.

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. Ruby Cohn was raised in New York City and was in the WAVES during World War II. She took her B.A. from Hunter College, a graduate degree from the University of Paris, and her Ph. D. at Washington University in St. Louis. She has published and edited over a dozen books on modern American and European drama, with four on the works of Samuel Beckett. Dr. Cohn has taught at San Francisco State, California Institute for the Arts, and UC-Davis.

Christopher Conlon is a freelance writer who holds an M.A. in American literature from the University of Maryland. His articles, poems, and stories have appeared in such diverse publications as America Magazine, Filmfax, The Thomas Wolfe Review, and The Washington Post. Conlon's web site can be accessed at www.christopherconlon.com.

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.

Christina Hunter teaches English literature at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she is writing a dissertation on the apprentice plays of Tennessee Williams. She has presented papers at the Tennessee Williams Scholars' Conference and The Florida State University Film and Literature Conference.

Mr. Thomas Keith is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. He is an editor as well as director of royalties at New Directions Publishing Company in New York, where he has been involved in the preparation of every Tennessee Williams title New Directions has published since The Red Devil Battery Sign in 1988. He edited Robert Burns: Selected Poems and Songs, and he has written a variety of critical articles for The Burns Chronicle and Studies in Scottish Literature. Along with Peggy Fox, Keith is the co-editor of The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin, to be published by Norton in 2003, and he has also contributed to Philip Kolin's Undiscovered Country: Tennessee Williams's Later Plays.

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.

Jean Kontaxopoulos, literary essayist and lawyer (research scholar in international labor law at the University of Paris-Sorbonne) is also the General Secretary of the Comparative Literature Society (in Paris) and the author of articles on Jean Cocteau, Tennessee Williams, and others. He is currently preparing a book on the art cinema of Nico Papatakis.

Dr. Colby Kullman is Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where he has twice been awarded Teacher of the Year. In addition to his authoring many articles on Williams and other modern dramatists, he has also served as editor-in-chief of the two-volume reference work Theatre Companies of the Contemporary American Playwrights and co-editor of Studies in American Drama: 1945-Present.

Lindy Levin is a licensed family therapist living in Pacific Palisades, California. For two years she was an affiliated scholar at the University of Southern California and has taught developmental psychology at Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles. Currently she is a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.

Dr. Brenda Murphy is professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Among her books are: O'Neill: Long Day's Journey Into Night, Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyism On Stage, Film and Television, Miller: Death of a Salesman, Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theater, American Realism and American Drama, 1880-1940 and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights. Her most recent work on Tennessee Williams includes two forthcoming articles on his politics in the context of the Cold War.

Jacqueline O'Connor is Assistant Professor of English and Drama at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she teaches modern and contemporary drama and American literature. She has published several articles and a book on Tennessee Williams, as well as articles on Ntozake Shange and Anna Cora Mowatt. Currently she is working on a book-length study of boardinghouses and hotels in American literature.

Michael Paller has been consulting dramaturg for the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City; the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey; the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Massachusetts; and the Barrington Stage Company in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He has also been a consulting dramaturg for the Manhattan Class Company and the Pearl Theatre in New York and at Brandeis University. He served as dramaturg for the Russian premiere of Williams's Small Craft Warnings at Moscow's Sovermenik Theatre in 1997 and has written on theatre and books for The Washington Post, Newsday, The Village Voice, and other publications.

Dr. R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature and Director of the South Carolina Film Institute at Clemson University. His latest book on Hollywood film (with Cheryl Lower) is Joseph Mankiewicz: Critical Essays with a Bibliography and Filmography.

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.

Dr. Annette Saddik is associate professor of modern and postmodern drama in the department of English at Eastern Michigan University. Her work on Williams includes a book of the later work, The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays, which came out in 1999, an article in Modern Drama on cannibalism in Suddenly Last Summer and "Desire and the Black Masseur," an article on Tennessee Williams's later plays for Undiscovered Country, and several book reviews. In addition to her most recent project on twentieth-century performance, she is currently working on several entries to the Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia. Her 1995 doctoral dissertation for Rutgers University, Freer Forms or Rambling Discourses?: The Later Work of Tennessee Williams and the Dynamics of Critical Reception, was one of the first full-length studies to be devoted to the later plays.

Michael R. Schiavi is Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of ESL at New York Institute of Technology, Manhattan Campus. His work is forthcoming in Cassell's Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre and in the anthology entitled A Doorway, A Dawn, a Dusk: Queer Lives in the Theatre (Wesleyan University Press).

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.

Lori Leathers Single is a doctoral student in English at Georgia State University. She has several publications and has won the Ray Browne award for her essay entitled "Reading Against the Grain: The Reception for Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein."

Nancy M. Tischler