Issue 1—1998
Premier Issue

Robert Bray

Middle Tennessee State University

Robert Bray, professor emeritus at Middle Tennessee State University, is founding and consulting editor of the Tennessee Williams Annual Review and founding director of the Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference. He has written dozens of essays and entries on Williams’s work and is the coauthor (with Barton Palmer) of Hollywood’s Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America (2009) and author-editor of Tennessee Williams and His Contemporaries (2007). Bray also coedited (with Palmer) Modern American Drama on Screen (2013) and Modern British Drama on Screen (2013).

Tennessee Williams

George W. Crandell

Head of the English Department
Auburn University

George W. Crandell is a professor of English and currently serves as associate dean of the graduate school at Auburn University. He is the author of Tennessee Williams: A Descriptive Bibliography (U of Pittsburgh P, 1995) and editor of The Critical Response to Tennessee Williams (Greenwood P, 1996). His articles on Williams have appeared in Modern Drama, the Southern Quarterly, and many other journals. Dr. Crandell’s most recently completed book, Arthur Miller: A Descriptive Bibliography, was published by Oak Knoll Press in 2011.

Allean Hale

Adjunct Professor of Theatre
University of Illinois-Urbana

Allean Hale, adjunct professor of theatre at the University of Illinois-Urbana, has published widely on Tennessee Williams and has edited several of Williams's plays for publication by New Directions. She has been a consultant on three film documentaries of Williams's life and was assistant to Lyle Leverich on the official biography, Tom, The Unknown Tennessee Williams.

Albert J. Devlin

Philip C. Kolin

University Distinguished Professor
University of Southern Mississippi

Philip C. Kolin is the University Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has published extensively on Williams’s canon and life, including Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia (Greenwood P, 2004), The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights (McFarland, 2008), The Undiscovered Country: The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams (P. Lang, 2002), and Confronting Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire: Essays in Critical Pluralism (Greenwood P, 1993). His articles on Williams have appeared in Modern Drama, Theatre History Studies, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Michigan Quarterly Review.

Brian Parker

Emeritus Professor of English
University of Toronto

Brian Parker is emeritus professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he has also served as director of graduate English studies, dean of arts, and vice provost of Trinity College. His wide ranging scholarship includes books and articles on Elizabethan drama and the works of Tennessee Williams.

Gilbert Debusscher

Professor of English and American Literature
University of Brussels in Belgium

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.

Thomas P. Adler

Nancy M. Tischler

Professor Emerita of English and Humanities
Pennsylvania State University

Nancy M. Tischler is professor emerita of English and Humanities at the Pennsylvania State University, where she taught for 33 years. A prolific author and invited lecturer, her other work on Williams includes The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volumes one and two, and The Student Companion to Tennessee Williams.

Bert Cardullo

James Schlatter

Dean Shackelford

Associate Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Southeast Missouri State University

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.

Robert J. Grosch

1998 Tennessee Williams Annual Review Cover