The Journal

• Adler, Thomas P.
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    Journal Essays:
  • Book Review: Tennessee Williams’s Notebooks (2007)
  • Tennessee Williams’s Poetry: Intertext and Metatext (1998)
• Aguilera Linde, Mauricio D.
  • University of Granada (Spain)
    Mauricio D. Aguilera Linde teaches at the University of Granada (Spain). Editor of an anthology of Victorian fairytales and a collection of Indian short fiction (Miraguano 2009), he specializes in American short fiction and drama of the forties and fifties from a cultural materialist perspective.
    Journal Essays:
  • “The Wilderness is Interior”: Williams’s Strategies of Resistance in “Two on a Party” (2010)
• Akers, Shelley
  • Shelley Akers holds a B.A. from the University of the South and an M.A. from Middle Tennessee State University, where she wrote her thesis, “Culture, Self, and Fragmentation: Three Critical Approaches to Tennessee Williams’s Moise and the World of Reason,” under the direction of Dr. Robert Bray. She presented a portion of her research at the 2009 Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference and plans to continue her study of Moise and Memoirs as an independent scholar.
    Journal Essays:
  • “The Blue Jays of My Life”: An Autobiographical Approach to Moise and the World of Reason (2011)
• Alfieri, Gabe C.
  • Musicologist and Professional Musician
    Gabe C. Alfieri is a musicologist and professional musician living in the Boston area. He holds a PhD in historical musicology from Boston University and teaches at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.
    Journal Essays:
  • “Remembered Music”: Retrieving the Lost Sounds of Sweet Bird of Youth (2020)
• Andrzejewski, Alicia
  • Alicia Andrzejewski is a PhD student and Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellow in the English program at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She holds an MA from Appalachian State University. Her research focuses on representations of pregnancy and fertility control in early modern drama, bringing together feminist, queer, and affect theory in order to work through how “failed” pregnancies were and are imagined and understood. She teaches at CUNY and the State University of New York, and she is a writing fellow for the College Preparatory Program at Townsend Harris High School and Queens College.
    Journal Essays:
  • Blue Roses and Other Queer Energies in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie (2017)
• Badenes, José I.
  • Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature
    Loyola Marymount University
    José I. Badenes teaches Spanish and comparative literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He specializes in the life and works of Spaniard Federico García Lorca. Dr. Badenes is currently working on a comparative study of the plays of Tennessee Williams and Federico García Lorca.
    Journal Essays:
  • The Dramatization of Desire: Tennessee Williams and Federico García Lorca (2009)
• Bak, John S.
  • Université de Lorraine (France)
    John S. Bak, Professor at the Université de Lorraine in France, holds degrees from the universities of Illinois and Ball State and the Sorbonne. A former Fulbright scholar to the Czech Republic in 1995, he has been a visiting fellow at Harvard (2011), Columbia (2013), the University of Texas (2014), and Oxford (2014–16). His books on Williams include Tennessee Williams and Europe (2014), Tennessee Williams: A Literary Life (2013), New Selected Essays: Where I Live (2009), and Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and Queer Masculinities (2009).
    Journal Essays:
  • “Before We Met”: Tennessee Williams, Robert Carter, and the “Catastrophe” of Post-1945 Friendships (2024)
  • Tennessee Williams and “Kicks”: Life and Work in Context, 1976 (2021)
  • Edwina Dakin Williams’s Diary Entries, 1931 to 1934: An Introduction (2019)
  • The Red Devil of Comox Street: Tennessee Williams in Vancouver, 1980 and 1981 (2017)
  • A Streetcar Named Dies Irae: Tennessee Williams and the Semiotics of Rape (2009)
  • Tennessee v. John T. Scopes: “Blanche” Jennings Bryan and Antievolutionism (2006)
  • Conference Panels:
  • Tennessee Williams and the Cold War (2014)
  • Williams and His Contemporaries: William Inge (2007)
• Bernard, Mark
  • Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, TN
    Mark Bernard has published and presented essays on James Joyce, Irish literature, comics and sequential art, and film. He lives in Knoxville, TN, and teaches courses in composition, literature, and film studies at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, TN.
    Journal Essays:
  • Punishment and the Body: Boss Whalen, Michel Foucault, and Not About Nightingales (2005)
• Blades, Larry
  • Larry Blades is an independent scholar. He presented a version of this essay at the 2008 Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference.
    Journal Essays:
  • The Returning Vet’s Experience in A Streetcar Named Desire: Stanley as the Decommissioned Warrior under Stress (2009)
• Bourque, Darrell
  • Professor of English
    University of Louisiana-Lafayette
    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.
  • Conference Panels:
  • Teaching Tennessee (2001)
• Brantley, Will
  • Professor of English
    Middle Tennessee State University
    Will Brantley is a professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir and Conversations with Pauline Kael as well as numerous essays on southern literature.
  • Conference Panels:
  • Williams and His Contemporaries: Lillian Hellman (2006)
  • Exotic Birds of a Feather: Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams (2000)
• Bray, Robert
  • 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).
    Journal Essays:
  • In Memoriam: Nancy M. Tischler (2020)
  • Editor’s Note (2016)
  • Editor’s Note to Sacre de Printemps (2011)
  • A Reading of The Reading (2010)
  • Editor’s Note (2009)
  • A Streetcar Named Interior Panic (2007)
  • Foreword to “His Father’s House” (2005)
  • Editor’ s Note to The One Exception (2000)
  • Editor’s Note to “The Negative” (1999)
  • Editor’s Foreword and Acknowledgments (1998)
  • Conference Panels:
  • The Early Plays of Tennessee Williams (2005)
  • The Unpublished Tennessee Williams (2003)
  • Looking at the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2002)
  • Teaching Tennessee (2001)
• Brewer, Mary F.
  • Senior Lecturer in English and Drama
    Loughborough University, UK
    Mary F. Brewer is a senior lecturer in English and drama at Loughborough University, UK. She is the author of Staging Whiteness (2005) and coeditor of Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama (2015) and has published essays on literature and film adaptation. Her teaching and research interests are modern and contemporary American and English literature and drama, with a particular focus on the representation of identity.
    Journal Essays:
  • The Rose Tattoo: Tennessee Williams’s “Love-Play to the World” on Film (2016)
• Cabello, Juanita
  • Independent Scholar
    Juanita Cabello received her Ph.D. in English and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her dissertation focused on American travel literature and tourism in Mexico and included a chapter on Tennessee Williams’s The Night of the Iguana and the construction of Puerto Vallarta as a tourist site. Her article on Latina “chick-lit” and popular women’s travel narratives was recently published in Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of MALCS. She is an independent scholar, currently working as an interpreter in Fort Worth, Texas.
    Journal Essays:
  • “A Summer of Discovery”: The Exilic and Touristic Poetics of The Night of the Iguana (2011)
• Cardullo, Bert
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    Journal Essays:
  • The Blue Rose of St. Louis: Laura, Romanticism, and The Glass Menagerie (1998)
• Carr, Virginia Spencer
  • Professor of English
    Georgia State University
    Virginia Spencer Carr is a professor of English at Georgia State University and has written several books on Carson McCullers—most notably, her award-winning biography, The Lonely Hunter, in 1975. She has also written biographies of John Dos Passos and is presently finishing one on Paul Bowles and working on another on Tennessee Williams.
  • Conference Panels:
  • Exotic Birds of a Feather: Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams (2000)
• Case, Claudia Wilsch
  • Claudia Wilsch Case is a scholar, translator, and dramaturg. She received an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama, and is currently working on her dissertation on the Theatre Guild at Yale.
    Journal Essays:
  • Inventing Tennessee Williams: The Theatre Guild and His First Professional Production (2006)
• Cave, Mark
  • Senior Historian
    The Historic New Orleans Collection
    Mark Cave is senior historian at The Historic New Orleans Collection, where he has developed the literary arts holdings for more than twenty years and has mounted numerous exhibitions on a wide variety of topics related to New Orleans history and culture. He is past president of the International Oral History Association and is the coeditor, with Stephen Sloan, of Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis (2014) and Oral History and the Environment: Global Perspectives on Climate, Connection, and Catastrophe (forthcoming).
    Journal Essays:
  • Celebrating the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of A Streetcar Named Desire (2022)
  • Fred W. Todd and the Tennessee Williams Holdings at The Historic New Orleans Collection (2005)
• Cedars, Stephen
  • Stephen Cedars writer, director, teacher, and scholar whose plays have been published, produced, or developed throughout the US and Canada. He has created new theatrical work as a director in New York City for more than twenty years. His scholarship has been published in journals throughout the US and UK. He is currently a PhD candidate in theater and performance with the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
    Journal Essays:
  • American Blues, directed by Jim Niesen (2024)
  • The Jungle and the Unwashed Grape:
    Utopic Potential of the Filthy City in the Work of Tennessee Williams and Charles Ludlam (2023)
• Ciba, Daniel
  • Assistant Professor of Theater
    Ramapo College of New Jersey
    Daniel Ciba is assistant professor of theater (history and criticism) at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He holds an MA from Villanova University and a PhD from Tufts University, serves as associate editor of the University of Iowa Press’s Studies in Theatre History and Culture Series, and is the incoming book review editor for Theatre Annual. His book project in progress is entitled Blue Roses: Tennessee Williams, Memory, and the Queer Archive.
    Journal Essays:
  • Williams’s Queer Fan Mail and Collective Memory (2020)
• Clemens, Bernadette
  • Bernadette Clemens holds a B.A. cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University and a certificate from the British American Drama Academy. She is an M.A. candidate and director of national development at Case Western Reserve University, and a professional actress with unions AEA and AFTRA.
    Journal Essays:
  • Desire and Decay: Female Survivorship in Faulkner and Williams (2009)
• Clinton, Craig
  • Reed College
    Director of Theatre
    Dr. Craig Clinton is Director of Theatre at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. His publications include studies of works by Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Trevor Griffiths and John Arden. Clinton’s plays have been produced regionally and in New York City at Playwrights Horizons and the Manhattan Theatre Club. His recent book, Mrs. Leslie Carter, a biography of the turn of the twentieth century American stage star, was published in the fall of 2006 by McFarland and Company.
    Journal Essays:
  • Working with Tennessee: Charlotte Moore Discusses the Production of A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (2007)
• Cohn, Ruby
  • 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. She's taught at San Francisco State, California Institute for the Arts, and UC-Davis.
  • Conference Panels:
  • Looking at the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2002)
• Conlon, Christopher
  • Freelance Writer
    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.
    Journal Essays:
  • “Fox-Teeth in Your Heart”: Sexual Self-Portraiture in the Poetry of Tennessee Williams (2001)
• Crandell, George W.
  • 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.
    Journal Essays:
  • The Cinematic Eye in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie (1998)
  • Conference Panels:
  • A Black Cat and Other Plays: African American Productions of Williams’s Drama (2012)
  • The Early Plays of Tennessee Williams (2005)
  • Teaching Tennessee (2001)
• Davis, David A.
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    Journal Essays:
  • “Make the Lie True”: The Tragic Family in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and King Lear (2002)
• De Angelis, Rose
  • Professor of English
    Marist College
    Rose De Angelis is a professor of English at Marist College, where she teaches courses in ethnic and American literature, and was the editor of the book series Anthropology and Literature from 1996 to 2001. Her work on Italian American studies has appeared in Forum Italicum and Italian Americana. She has published articles on Eduardo De Filippo, Ford Madox Ford, Toni Morrison, Thomas Hardy, Edith Wharton, and others and has edited a volume of essays entitled Between Anthropology and Literature: Interdisciplinary Discourse (Routledge, 2002).
    Journal Essays:
  • The Rose Tattoo: Reading Tennessee Williams’s Play in a Cultural Context (2012)
• Debusscher, Gilbert
  • 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.
    Journal Essays:
  • Tennessee Williams’s Dramatic Charade: Secrets and Lies in The Glass Menagerie (2000)
  • “Where Memory Begins”: New Texas Light on The Glass Menagerie (1998)
• Devlin, Albert J.
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    Journal Essays:
  • “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams”: Prospects for Research (1998)
• Dews, Carlos
  • Professor and Chair of English and Foreign Languages
    University of West Florida in Pensacola
    Carlos Dews is a professor and Chair of English and Foreign Languages at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. He has written several works on Carson McCullers, including editing her unfinished autobiography, published in 1999, Illumination and Night Glare. He also worked on The Library of America's Carson McCullers: Complete Novels (2001).
  • Conference Panels:
  • Exotic Birds of a Feather: Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams (2000)
• Di Cintio, Matt
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    Journal Essays:
  • “Ordered Anarchy”: Writing as Transitional Object in Moise and the World of Reason (2002)
• DiQuattro, Marianne
  • Associate Professor of Theater
    Rollins College
    Marianne DiQuattro is an associate professor of theater at Rollins College. Her research interests include modern and contemporary comparative drama, performance history, and theater and disability.
    Journal Essays:
  • A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Jeremy Seghers, and
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Alexander Iacuzzo (2024)
• Dorff, Linda
  • 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.
    Journal Essays:
  • “All very [not!] Pirandello”: Radical Theatrics in the Evolution of Vieux Carré (2000)
  • Theatricalist Cartoons: Tennessee Williams’s Late, “Outrageous” Plays (1999)
• Ewell, Barbara
  • Kate Chopin Specialist
    City College, Loyola University of New Orleans
    
  • Conference Panels:
  • Exotic Birds of a Feather: Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams (2000)
• Falocco, Joe
  • Adjunct Professor of Theatre
    Catawba College
    Joe Falocco is an adjunct professor of theatre at Catawba College and a Ph.D. candidate at UNC Greensboro. His most recent publication, an essay on George Bernard Shaw, appears in the 2004 New England Theatre Journal.
    Journal Essays:
  • Gardens of Desire: Toward a Unified Vision of Garden District (2005)
• Falqueto Lemos, Adriana
  • Adriana Falqueto Lemos earned her doctorate in language arts at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo in Brazil. A teacher and a researcher at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas, she is the author of Literatura e videogame (2020).
    Journal Essays:
  • A Streetcar Named Desire in Brazil: A Brief Description of Selected Stagings (2022)
• Francis, James
  • James Francis is a Ph.D. candidate at Middle Tennessee State University. He completed his B.A. and M.A. in English (short fiction creative writing) at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. His fields of study include children’s literature and horror film adaptations, narratological studies in television and film, applications of gender and queer theory in popular culture, and creative writing—poetry, short fiction, and screenplays.
    Journal Essays:
  • Camping Out: Sexuality as Aesthetic Value in Tennessee Williams’s And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens… (2007)
• Freese, Michael D.
  • Michael D. Freese is a specialist in international education who has overseen collaborations between Russian and United States institutions of higher education. He has co-taught an acting course in Russia that focused on works by Tennessee Williams, including A Streetcar Named Desire and Orpheus Descending.
    Journal Essays:
  • The First Major Soviet Production of A Streetcar Named Desire (2022)
• Frontain, Raymond-Jean
  • Professor of English
    University of Central Arkansas
    Raymond-Jean Frontain is professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas. Among his recent publications are The Theater of Terrence McNally: Something about Grace (2019) and an edition of McNally’s writings about theater titled Muse of Fire (2020). He is currently at work on a study of Williams’s sexual ethic.
    Journal Essays:
  • Williams, Donne, and the Sometimes Conflicting Desires of the Flesh and the Spirit (2021)
  • Tennessee Williams and “the Arkansas Ozark Way” (2007)
• Gilbert, Tiffany
  • Professor and Department Chair
    University of North Carolina, Wilmington
    Tiffany Gilbert is professor and chair of the English department at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She has published essays on the films Carmen Jones, Imitation of Life, Plenty, My Left Foot, The Rose Tattoo, and The Fugitive Kind. Her recent work has focused on the 1898 Wilmington massacre and coup. She is a codirector of Wilmington 1898: Geographies of Rage, Resistance, and Resilience, a 2024 NEH Summer Institute, and she is currently coediting The 1898 Wilmington Massacre: Critical Explorations of Insurrection, Black Resilience, and Black Futures
    Journal Essays:
  • Book Review: ReFocus: The Literary Films of Robert Brooks, edited by R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey (2024)
  • Book Review: Recent Releases (2018)
  • Mississippi Magnani: Transatlantic Collaborations and Civil Rights in The Rose Tattoo and The Fugitive Kind (2017)
• Gindt, Dirk
  • Professor of Theater Studies
    Stockholm University
    Dirk Gindt, professor of theater studies at Stockholm University, has published more than twenty refereed journal articles and book chapters on Swedish, Canadian, and French theater and served as coeditor of the volume Viral Dramaturgies: HIV and AIDS in Performance in the Twenty-First Century (2018). His 2019 monograph Tennessee Williams in Sweden and France, 1945–1965 unpacks the sexual anxieties and racial fantasies that the US playwright’s works provoked in postwar Europe. Gindt recently published the coedited volume Berätta, överleva, inte drunkna, which explores anti-racism, decolonization, and migration in contemporary Swedish theater (2022). His current research, financed by a four-year grant from the Swedish Research Council, analyzes the decolonial labor of Indigenous Sámi performance and is conducted in consultation and close dialogue with Giron Sámi Teáhter in Kiruna/Giron.
    Journal Essays:
  • A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Stefan Larsson (2024)
  • Cat without Claws: Death and Homophobia in Ingmar Bergman’s Production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2020)
  • Torn between the “Swedish Sin” and “Homosexual Freemasonry”: Tennessee Williams, Sexual Morals, and the Closet in 1950s Sweden (2010)
  • Conference Panels:
  • Out of the Closet, Onto the Page: A Discussion of Williams’s Public Coming Out on The David Frost Show in 1970 and His Confessional Writing of the ‘70s (2011)
• Goldthwaite, Charles A., Jr.
  • Charles A. Goldthwaite Jr. received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 2003. His essay on sampling techniques in the work of Mark Danielewski is included in the forthcoming We Could Be So Good Together: Rock and Roll and American Fiction (U of North Texas Press).
    Journal Essays:
  • All Shook Up: Elvis, Bo, and the White Negro in Tennessee Williams’s Orpheus Descending (2006)
• Gregg, Jess
  • Jess Gregg enjoyed a ten-year fellowship with the New Dramatists Committee, during which he served as an assistant to top Broadway directors Elia Kazan (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ), Josh Logan (Fanny ), and Gower Champion (Bye Bye Birdie, Carnival, Hello, Dolly!, and I Do! I Do! ). His play “A Swim in the Sea” was optioned by the Theatre Guild and produced by Hal Prince at the Annie Russell Theatre in 1960 prior to its opening in Philadelphia. The following year it was successfully revived in England as “The Seashell,” starring Dame Sybil Thorndike and the up-and-coming Sean Connery. Gregg published two novels, had other plays produced, and also wrote the libretto for the musical “Cowboy,” which toured the West for two years. A collection of autobiographical pieces was published as The Tall Boy in 2005 by the Permanent Press.
    Journal Essays:
  • Kazan and Cat (2011)
• Grosch, Robert J.
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    Journal Essays:
  • Memory as Theme and Production Value in Tennessee Williams’s The Red Devil Battery Sign (1998)
• Gudkov, Maxim M.
  • The award-winning stage and film actor Maxim M. Gudkov was born and lives in St. Petersburg. Since 2007, he has been an acting teacher and director at St. Petersburg State University, where he has directed productions of The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Suddenly Last Summer, and Orpheus Descending, among other plays. A scholar of United States theater and of US-Russian stage relations, he is author of more than fifty academic articles.
    Journal Essays:
  • The First Major Soviet Production of A Streetcar Named Desire (2022)
• Hale, Allean
  • 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.
    Journal Essays:
  • What Was He Reading? (2006)
  • Tennessee Williams’s Three Plays for the Lyric Theatre (2005)
  • Confronting the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2003)
  • Tom Williams, Proletarian Playwright (1998)
  • Conference Panels:
  • The Early Plays of Tennessee Williams (2005)
  • The Unpublished Tennessee Williams (2003)
  • Looking at the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2002)
• Haman, John
  • The author of several published plays and short stories, John Haman is completing an MFA degree in creative writing at Sewanee School of Letters. He has worked as a journalist, communications professional, writing instructor, and playwriting mentor. In recent years, he has been named a finalist in three national playwriting competitions and one national fiction competition.
    Journal Essays:
  • Dumbshow on the Verandah:
    Silent Action in the Plays of Tennessee Williams (2023)
• Harrington, Gary
  • Gary Harrington is professor of English at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland. His research focuses primarily on twentieth-century American literature and on the works of Shakespeare.
    Journal Essays:
  • The Grey Area in A Streetcar Named Desire (2022)
• Hooper, Michael
  • Michael S. D. Hooper is an independent scholar and private tutor. He is the author of Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams: Desire over Protest (2012) and several essays in the Tennessee Williams Annual Review, and he is the editor of the Methuen Student Edition of A Streetcar Named Desire (2009). He wrote the Williams entry for the online Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (2016) and has contributed to A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams, edited by Katherine Weiss (2014). His essay “Pedro Almodóvar’s Homage to Tennessee Williams” appears in Tennessee Williams in Europe: Intercultural Encounters, Transatlantic Exchanges, edited by John S. Bak (2014), while “A Spectral Future: Dementia and the Nonhuman in Marjorie Prime” is forthcoming in Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction, edited by Sarah Falcus and Maricel Oró-Piqueras.
    Journal Essays:
  • Book Review: Blue Song: St. Louis in the Life and Work of Tennessee Williams, by Henry I. Schvey (2022)
  • Painting His Nudes: Tennessee Williams’s Homoerotic Art (2019)
  • “Hysteria is the condition of this place”: This Is the Peaceable Kingdom and the Failure of Quietism (2012)
  • Warring Desires: Sex, Marriage, and the Returning Soldier (2009)
  • Conference Panels:
  • Tennessee Williams and the Cold War (2014)
• Hunter, Christina
  • University of Southern Mississippi
    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.
    Journal Essays:
  • A Tennessee Williams Bibliography, 1998–2001 (2001)
• Kaplan, David
  • David Kaplan is the author of Tennessee Williams in Provincetown (2006) and Tenn Years: Tennessee Williams on Stage, a collection of essays (2015). He also served as editor of Tenn at One Hundred (2011), a comprehensive look at Williams’s evolving reputation from varied perspectives, including those of Amiri Baraka, Allean Hale, and John Lahr. Kaplan has staged plays by Williams since 1973. These include Suddenly Last Summer in Russia, in Russian (1993); The Eccentricities of a Nightingale in Hong Kong, in Cantonese (2003); The Day on Which a Man Dies in Chicago (2007) and in South Africa (2015); Ten Blocks on the Camino Real in Uruguay, in Rioplatanese Spanish (2012), and in Ghana (2016). In 2022 he staged a Felliniesque Rose Tattoo in a big top circus tent in St. Louis. He is the curator and cofounder of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, now in its eighteenth year.
    Journal Essays:
  • Theater Review: Un tramway nommé Désir, directed by Lee Breuer (2023)
• Keith, Thomas
  • Consulting Editor
    New Directions Publishing
    Thomas Keith, consulting editor at New Directions Publishing, has edited more than twenty Tennessee Williams titles since 2002, and he has written introductions for A House Not Meant to Stand (2008) and Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws (2016) as well as the notes for The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays (2011). He is coeditor of The Luck of Friendship: The Letters of Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin (2018) and editor of the essay collection Love, Christopher Street (2012). Keith has also written extensively about the poet Robert Burns: he is the author of the bibliography Robert Burns’s Life on the Stage (2022), and his chapter on Burns and Frederick Douglass appears in The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns (2024). A 2004 Roy Fellow of Scottish Studies at the University of South Carolina, he appeared in the BBC documentaries How Auld Lang Syne Took Over the World (2013) and Burns in the USA (2017). His writing has appeared in American Theatre, Gay and Lesbian Review, and Studies in Scottish Literature. He has served as dramaturge for Sundance Institute Theater Lab and teaches theater at Pace University.
    Journal Essays:
  • Introduction to “The Final Day of Your Life” (2024)
  • Theater Review: Vieux Carré at the Pearl Theatre Company, New York City, May 12–June 14, 2009 (2010)
  • Conference Panels:
  • The Unpublished Tennessee Williams (2003)
  • Looking at the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2002)
• Kolin, Philip C.
  • 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.
    Journal Essays:
  • An Interview with Douglas McKeown on the Production of Kirche, Kutchen, und Kinder, 1979 (2010)
  • Picaro Tom Goes Catfishing: The Proleptic Importance of “Gift of an Apple” (2007)
  • Tenn and the Banana Queen: The Correspondence of Tennessee Williams and Marion Black Vaccaro (2006)
  • The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde: Tennessee Williams’s Little Shop of Comic Horrors (2001)
  • Compañero Tenn: The Hispanic Presence in the Plays of Tennessee Williams (1999)
  • “Isolated”: Tennessee Williams’s First Extant Published Short Story (1998)
  • Conference Panels:
  • A Black Cat and Other Plays: African American Productions of Williams’s Drama (2012)
  • Williams and the Grotesque (2006)
  • The Early Plays of Tennessee Williams (2005)
  • The Unpublished Tennessee Williams (2003)
  • Looking at the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2002)
  • Teaching Tennessee (2001)
• Kontaxopoulos, Jean
  • 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.
    Journal Essays:
  • Orpheus Introspecting: Tennessee Williams and Jean Cocteau (2001)
• Kramer, Richard E.
  • 
    Journal Essays:
  • “The Sculptural Drama”: Tennessee Williams’s Plastic Theatre (2002)
• Kullman, Colby
  • Professor of English
    University of Mississippi
    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.
  • Conference Panels:
  • Teaching Tennessee (2001)
• Leinster, Ciarán
  • Ciarán Leinster is an American studies scholar based in Dublin. He completed his PhD in 2019, and his first book, on postmodernism in the late plays of Arthur Miller, is scheduled to publish in late 2024. He has edited an annotated student edition of Miller’s The Last Yankee, and his writing has appeared in the Arthur Miller Journal, the Irish Journal of American Studies, Horror Studies, and US Studies Online. Currently he works in the Access and Lifelong Learning Centre in University College Dublin.
    Journal Essays:
  • The Rose Tattoo in Dublin, 1957 and 2023: From the Police in the Lane to the President in the Banana Warehouse (2024)
• Leopold, David
  • David Leopold is an author and curator who has organized exhibitions for institutions around the world, including the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London. He has been the archivist of Al Hirschfeld’s work for more than two decades.
    Journal Essays:
  • Drawn to Life: Al Hirschfeld and the Theater of Tennessee Williams (2011)
• Levin, Lindy
  • 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.
    Journal Essays:
  • Shadow Into Light: A Jungian Analysis of The Night of the Iguana (1999)
• Longbrake, Margit
  • The Historic New Orleans Collection
    Senior editor Margit Longbrake acquires and edits books and museum publications for The Historic New Orleans Collection. Among her edited volumes is Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War–Era Newspapers: A Bilingual Edition, translated and introduced by Clint Bruce (2020), winner of the 2021 Lois Roth Award for Literary Translation and longlisted for the 2021 ALTA National Translation Award in Poetry. As managing editor of the Tennessee Williams Annual Review she has overseen the first-time publication of a number of primary Williams texts unearthed from the archives. Before joining THNOC she worked for over a decade at the Modern Language Association, where she acquired and developed pedagogical anthologies and literary translations and contributed to the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook.
    Journal Essays:
  • Celebrating the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of A Streetcar Named Desire (2022)
• Loomis, Jeffrey B.
  • Professor Emeritus in English
    Northwest Missouri State University
    Jeffrey B. Loomis is professor emeritus in English at Northwest Missouri State University. Author of Dayspring in Darkness: Sacrament in Hopkins, he has also published several previous essays on Tennessee Williams, as well as journal articles on Howe, Shakespeare, Strindberg, Goethe, Albee, Shaffer, Zindel, Sondheim, Woolf, and Flannery O’Connor.
    Journal Essays:
  • “Unconscious Acts of Aggression”: Tennessee Williams, Elia Kazan, and Key Rewritings of Sweet Bird of Youth (2021)
• Martinson, Deborah
  • Professor of English
    Occidental College in Los Angeles
    Deborah Martinson is a professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles and the author of Lillian Hellman: A Life with Foxes and Scoundrels (2005). Her previous book is entitled In the Presence of Audience: The Self in Diaries and Fiction.
  • Conference Panels:
  • Williams and His Contemporaries: Lillian Hellman (2006)
• Maruéjouls-Koch, Sophie
  • Sophie Maruéjouls-Koch is currently writing her doctoral thesis on the interartistic dimension of Tennessee Williams’s “plastic theatre.” She has published articles in Le Magazine littéraire, the Tennessee Williams Annual Review, and Modern Drama. She teaches English in Cayenne, French Guiana.
    Journal Essays:
  • Tennessee Williams and Jackson Pollock: The Art of Crossing the Line (2014)
  • Absorbing Images: Tennessee Williams’s “Plastic Theatre” and European Painting (2012)
• Meek, Michele
  • Michele Meek has published articles in MovieMaker Magazine, The Independent Film & Video Monthly, WHERE Magazine, Bonjour Paris, and indieWIRE. She has guest lectured at Boston College and Emerson College and taught film and writing courses at Emerson College, Boston Film Video Foundation, and Massachusetts College of Art. She earned her M.F.A. from Emerson College and is a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Rhode Island. She will be presenting her paper “Art and Hoax: The Street Art Movement and Viral Marketing of Exit through the Gift Shop” at the 2011 Society For Cinema and Media Studies Conference.
    Journal Essays:
  • Marriage, Adultery, and Desire: A Subversive Subtext in Baby Doll (2011)
• Mitchell, Tom
  • Head of the Theatre Department
    University of Illinois
    Tom Mitchell is professor emeritus of theater at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and scholar-in-residence for the Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis. Mitchell edited Tennessee Williams’s story “Why Did Desdemona Love the Moor?” for first-time publication (Tennessee Williams Annual Review, 2020) and adapted it for performance at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. His essay “Tennessee Williams Wrestles with Race in Three Unpublished Works: ‘Goat Song,’ ‘Heavenly Grass,’ and ‘Why Did Desdemona Love the Moor?’” appeared in the 2019 issue of the Tennessee Williams Annual Review, and he is the editor of a forthcoming edition of previously unpublished stories by Williams, “The Caterpillar Dogs” and Other Early Stories. Mitchell has adapted “The Men from the Polar Star” for the 2023 Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.
    Journal Essays:
  • Introduction to “The Lost Girl” (2023)
  • Introduction to “Why Did Desdemona Love the Moor?” (2020)
  • Tennessee Williams Wrestles with Race in Three Unpublished Works: “Goat Song,” “Heavenly Grass,” and “Why Did Desdemona Love the Moor?” (2019)
  • Tennessee Williams and the Mummers of St. Louis: The Birth of a Playwright (2009)
• Morra, Irene
  • Cardiff University, UK
    Irene Morra is a senior lecturer in English literature at Cardiff University in the UK. She is the author of Britishness, Popular Music, and National Identity: The Making of Modern Britain (2013) and Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain (2007), as well as various articles on modern drama, intermediality, and cultural nationalisms.
    Journal Essays:
  • Maenads and Metatheatre: Tennessee Williams’s Suddenly Last Summer as Euripidean Myth (2014)
• Morton, Clay
  • Associate Professor of English
    Macon State College
    Clay Morton is an associate professor of English and director of the honors program at Macon State College, where he specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. He is the author of The Oral Character of Southern Literature: Explaining the Distinctiveness of Regional Texts (Mellen, 2008) and has published essays on William Faulkner (Storytelling), William Gilmore Simms (Southern Studies), the Southern Agrarians (New Georgia Encyclopedia and elsewhere), and nineteenth-century rhetorical education (South Atlantic Review). His current research focuses on autism and the literary imagination.
    Journal Essays:
  • Not Like All the Other Horses: Neurodiversity and the Case of Rose Williams (2012)
• Moschovakis, Nick
  • Independent Scholar
    Nick Moschovakis is an independent scholar and co-editor (with David Roessel) of Williams's Collected Poems and Mister Paradise and Other Short Plays. He has written critical and review essays for previous issues of TWAR; otherwise, his teaching and his publications have centered on Shakespeare and Milton. He is writing a book on allusion in early modern English literature.
    Journal Essays:
  • Book Review: Recent Releases (2010)
  • Tennessee Williams’s American Blues: From the Early Manuscripts Through Menagerie (2005)
  • Theater Review: Taking the Personal Politically: A Review of, and Response to, Michael Wilson’s 8 By Tenn (Hartford Stage, 2003) (2003)
  • Conference Panels:
  • The Early Plays of Tennessee Williams (2005)
  • The Unpublished Tennessee Williams (2003)
• Murphy, Brenda
  • Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English, emeritus
    University of Connecticut
    Brenda Murphy is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English, emeritus, at the University of Connecticut and has served as president of the American Theatre and Drama Society and the Eugene O’Neill Society. Her scholarly work places American drama, theatre, and performance in the broader context of American literature and culture. Among her nineteen books are The Theatre of Tennessee Williams (2014), Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theatre (1992), and, as editor, Critical Insights: Tennessee Williams (2011) and Critical Insights: A Streetcar Named Desire (2010).
    Journal Essays:
  • How to Fix a Second Act: The Film and Television Adaptations of Sweet Bird of Youth (2016)
  • Conference Panels:
  • Looking at the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2002)
• Neri, Barbara
  • Barbara Neri is a writer, scholar, and multidisciplinary artist. Her critical and creative writing can be found in Victorian Poetry, Performance Research, and TDR/The Drama Review, among other publications. She is associate editor of The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2010) and is currently finishing a book on Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese. Neri’s award-winning screenplay Sonnets from the Portuguese reenvisions Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning’s romance for contemporary audiences. Her play Unlocking Desire premiered in Detroit in 2011, and her screen adaptation of the work won the 2017 Marfa Film Festival Screenplay Competition. Her latest screenplay, The Forgotten Front, tells the story of Katharine Cornell’s World War II USO tour of Italy.
    Journal Essays:
  • Editor’s Note on the Text of “Kicks,” Tennessee Williams’s Unfinished Poem Exploring Blanche DuBois’s Crimes and Punishment (2021)
  • Loving Thee Better after Death: Williams’s Allusion to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Her Sonnets from the Portuguese in A Streetcar Named Desire (2018)
• Nicolay, Claire
  • Adjunct Professor of English
    Loyola University Chicago
    Claire Nicolay is an adjunct professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, where she teaches fiction and drama. Her research has focused on constructions of masculinity and male self-fashioning in nineteenth-century British culture, with articles on Benjamin Disraeli, Catherine Gore, W. M. Thackeray, and Charles Baudelaire.
    Journal Essays:
  • Hoboes, Sissies, and Breeders: Generations of Discontent in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2011)
• O’Connor, Jacqueline
  • Professor of English
    Boise State University
    Jacqueline O’Connor is a professor of English at Boise State University. She is the author of Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater (2013) and Dramatizing Dementia: Madness in the Plays of Tennessee Williams.
    Journal Essays:
  • Narrativa Oscura: The Open Question of Tennessee Williams’s “One Arm” (2014)
  • Theater Review: Williams Through a “great window”: A Theatre Review of Fugitive Kind (2003)
  • “Living in this little hotel”: Boarders on Borders in Tennessee Williams’s Early Short Plays (2000)
  • Conference Panels:
  • Tennessee Williams and the Cold War (2014)
  • Williams and the Grotesque (2006)
• O’Neill, Michael C.
  • Associate Professor of English and Director of Theater
    Lafayette College
    Michael C. O’Neill is an associate professor of English and director of theater at Lafayette College. His work has appeared in Theatre Journal, Renascence, the Polish Review, the Eugene O’Neill Review, and the New York Times. A former Fulbright Scholar, he was the Eugene O’Neill Foundation’s visiting artist in residence at Tao House in 2005. He has written and directed for college, university, and professional theaters in both the United States and abroad.
    Journal Essays:
  • The Williams Centenary on New York Stages (2012)
• Paller, Michael
  • Dramaturg and Director of Humanities
    American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco
    Michael Paller is dramaturg and director of humanities for the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and also teaches in their M.F.A. acting conservatory. Since joining A.C.T. in August 2005, he has dramaturged more than thirty mainstage productions and several readings in A.C.T.’s First Look series of new work, including plays by Ping Chong, José Rivera, Lillian Groag, and Philip Kan Gotanda. He has been a dramaturg and literary manager at several theatres, including the George Street Playhouse, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, the Long Wharf Theatre, the Roundabout Theatre, and others. He is the author of Gentlemen Callers: Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality and Mid-20th Century Drama (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005) and Tennessee Williams: The Playwright in Context (Smith & Kraus, 2010), as well as several essays on Williams’s work.
    Journal Essays:
  • A Playwright with a Social Conscience (2009)
  • The Couch and Tennessee (2000)
  • Conference Panels:
  • Out of the Closet, Onto the Page: A Discussion of Williams’s Public Coming Out on The David Frost Show in 1970 and His Confessional Writing of the ‘70s (2011)
• Palmer, R. Barton
  • Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Emeritus
    Clemson University
    R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Emeritus at Clemson University, where he founded the World Cinema program and served as its first director. He has worked with the Tennessee Williams Annual Review as a contributor for more than two decades and assumed the role of editor in 2017. With Robert Bray he published Hollywood’s Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America and edited the multiauthor volume Modern American Drama on Screen. Recently, with Homer B. Pettey, he published ReFocus: The Literary Films of Richard Brooks. Palmer has published widely on US and world cinema history, on topics including film noir, film theory, and directors such as the Coen Brothers, Michael Mann, Steven Soderbergh, and Michael Curtiz, among others. An award-winning editor and translator of medieval French poetry, he published the edited volume Allegory and the Poetic Self: First-Person Narration in Late Medieval Literature in 2022. Palmer also serves as the editor of the South Atlantic Review and is a book series editor at a number of academic presses.
    Journal Essays:
  • Editor’s Note (2024)
  • Book Review: Blanche: The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Creation, by Nancy Schoenberger (2024)
  • Editor’s Note (2023)
  • Editor’s Note (2022)
  • Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine: A Streetcar sans Desire (2022)
  • Editor’s Note (2021)
  • Editor’s Note (2020)
  • Editor’s Note (2019)
  • Book Review: Recent Releases (2019)
  • Editor’s Note (2018)
  • Introduction to “Provisional Film Story Treatment of The Gentleman Caller (First Title)” (2018)
  • Period of Adjustment in Context: Tennessee Williams and Noël Coward (2018)
  • Editor’s Note (2017)
  • Period of Adjustment and Hack Writing (2016)
  • In the Williams Museum: Two Recent Cinematic Exhibits (2014)
  • Baby Doll: The Success of Scandal (2001)
  • Chance’s Main Chance: Richard Brooks’s Sweet Bird of Youth (2000)
  • Elia Kazan and Richard Brooks Do Tennessee Williams: Melodramatizing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Stage and Screen (1999)
  • Conference Panels:
  • Tennessee Williams and the Cold War (2014)
  • A Black Cat and Other Plays: African American Productions of Williams’s Drama (2012)
  • Williams and His Contemporaries: William Inge (2007)
  • Williams and His Contemporaries: Lillian Hellman (2006)
• Parker, Brian
  • 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.
    Journal Essays:
  • Problems with Boss Finley (2007)
  • Foreword to The Pretty Trap (2006)
  • Elia Kazan and Sweet Bird of Youth (2005)
  • Introduction to Il Cane Incantato della Divina Costiera (2003)
  • The Rose Tattoo as Comedy of the Grotesque (2003)
  • Introduction to a One-Act Version of The Night of the Iguana (2001)
  • Bringing Back Big Daddy (2000)
  • Multiple Endings for The Rose Tattoo (1951) (1999)
  • Documentary Sources for Camino Real (1998)
  • Conference Panels:
  • Williams and the Grotesque (2006)
  • The Early Plays of Tennessee Williams (2005)
• Peters, Brian M.
  • Champlain College, St-Lambert
    Brian M. Peters currently teaches English & American Literature at Champlain College, St-Lambert. He is working on a manuscript on the 1950s, in particular queer writers and American writers in France.
    Journal Essays:
  • Queer Semiotics of Expression: Gothic Language and Homosexual Destruction in Tennessee Williams’s “One Arm” and “Desire and the Black Masseur” (2006)
• Pettit, Alexander
  • University Distinguished Teaching Professor of English
    University of North
    Alexander Pettit is University Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University of North Texas. His recent and forthcoming essays concern Williams, Eugene O’Neill, Luis Valdez, Joni Mitchell, Caryl Churchill, and Native American drama. In 2012, Cambridge published his critical edition of Samuel Richardson’s Early Works.
    Journal Essays:
  • The Queer Mockery of High Expectations: Comic Closure and the Texts of Kingdom of Earth (2014)
• Pugh, Tison
  • Professor of English
    University of Central Florida
    Tison Pugh is Pegasus Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. His books include Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon (2016), Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies (2014), and the edited collection, Queering the South on Screen (2020).
    Journal Essays:
  • Book Review: The Lines between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment, by Bess Rowen (2022)
  • Book Review: Tennessee Williams in Sweden and France, 1945–1965, by Dirk Gindt (2020)
  • Camp Cannibalism in Suddenly Last Summer (2016)
• Quinlan, Stefanie
  • Stefanie Quinlan received her PhD in American literature from the University of Göettingen, Germany. She has taught German at the University of Colorado at Boulder and currently teaches English in Frankfurt.
    Journal Essays:
  • Something Unspoken: Dramatizing the Lesbian Closet (2012)
  • The Gnädiges Fräulein: Tennessee Williams’s Southernmost Belle (2010)
• Radavich, David
  • Professor of English
    Eastern Illinois University
    David Radavich, Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, has published a wide range of poetry and drama. His current scholarly project, The Midwestern Ground of American Drama, includes a chapter on Tennessee Williams's St. Louis plays.
    Journal Essays:
  • The Midwestern Plays of Tennessee Williams (2006)
• Rezaie, Naghmeh
  • PhD Candidate
    University of Delaware
    Naghmeh Rezaie is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Delaware. She works on adaptation theory and theories of national and global cinema. Her dissertation focuses on cross-cultural adaptations in postrevolutionary Iranian cinema and post–World War II French cinema. Rezaie holds BA degrees in English literature and in French literature from the University of Tehran and MA degrees in English from the University of Tehran and from the University of Delaware. She conducted her master’s thesis research on cinematic adaptations of the work of Tennessee Williams. Rezaie is also a poet and translator with six Persian poetry collections and two literary translations published in Iran.
    Journal Essays:
  • Here without Me: The Cross-Cultural Adaptation of The Glass Menagerie in Iranian Cinema (2018)
• Roudané, Matthew
  • Matthew Roudané, Regents’ Professor of English and Theater at Georgia State University, Atlanta, has published fourteen books on various aspects of American drama, including the edited collections Conversations with Arthur Miller (1987), Approaches to Teaching Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1995), The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams (1997), and The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller (2017), and he is currently at work on a new edition of The Cambridge Introduction to Arthur Miller. He serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including the Arthur Miller Journal.
    Journal Essays:
  • Book Review: Arthur Miller: American Witness, by John Lahr (2024)
• Rowell, John
  • John Rowell’s research focuses on rhetoric and composition, with an emphasis on speech act theory in theater. He currently teaches in the greater Vancouver, British Columbia, area at Columbia College and Douglas College and is a contributor to the 1001 Steps Theatre Society based in White Rock, British Columbia.
    Journal Essays:
  • Manufactured Memory and the Staging of Two Toms: The Absent Narrator in The Glass Menagerie (2021)
• Rowen, Bess
  • Villanova University
    Bess Rowen is assistant professor in the theater department at Villanova University. She is the author of The Lines between the Lines: How Stage Directions Affect Embodiment (2021), and her work focuses on what she terms “affective stage directions,” a topic she explored in her 2016 Tennessee Williams Annual Review essay “Completing the Sentence with a Gesture.” She serves as the performance review editor for the Eugene O’Neill Review and serves on the board of the Eugene O’Neill Society.
    Journal Essays:
  • Stairs to the Roof, directed by Marios Mettis (2024)
  • Theater Review: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Mitchell Polonsky and Chloe Claudel, and Bananas Burlesque, directed by Lefty Lucy (2023)
  • Book Review: “The Caterpillar Dogs” and Other Early Stories, by Tennessee Williams (2023)
  • Theater Review: Battle of Angels (2022)
  • Theater Review: The Night of the Iguana (2020)
  • Theater Review: Kirche, Küche, Kinder (An Outrage for the Stage) (2017)
  • Completing the Sentence with a Gesture: The Deconstructed Dialogue–Stage Direction Binary in the Work of Tennessee Williams (2016)
  • Theater Review: The Two-Character Play (2014)
• Saddik, Annette J.
  • Professor of Theatre and Literature
    City University of New York and
    New York City College of Technology
    Annette J. Saddik is CUNY Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Literature, with a dual teaching appointment at the Graduate Center PhD Program in Theatre and New York City College of Technology Department of English. She specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century drama and performance, particularly the work of Tennessee Williams, and has published four books, as well as numerous essays in scholarly journals, international theater playbills, newspapers, anthologies, and encyclopedias. Her most recent book, Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess: The Strange, The Crazed, The Queer (2015), contextualizes Williams’s plays through what she terms a “theatre of excess,” which seeks liberation through grotesque exaggeration, chaos, and ambivalent laughter. Saddik lectures and advises on productions both nationally and internationally as a dramaturge, participates regularly in audience “talk-backs” for Broadway and Off-Broadway performances, and serves on the boards of academic journals and as a voter for the Lucille Lortel Theatre Awards. She is currently working on her fifth book, Clowning Around? Reimagining Political Transformation in Late-Twentieth-Century Grotesque Theatre, which centers on the ambiguous figure of the clown as a site of resistance and transformation in plays that reacted to systems of oppression on various continents during the second half of the twentieth century.
    Journal Essays:
  • The Rose Tattoo, directed by Bonnie J. Monte (2024)
  • Endstation Sehnsucht (A Streetcar Named Desire) (2021)
  • Theater Review: Glass Guignol: The Brother and Sister Play (2018)
  • Foreword to Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay! (2016)
  • “Blueprints for the Reconstruction”: Postmodern Possibility in Stairs to the Roof (2007)
  • Conference Panels:
  • Tennessee Williams and the Cold War (2014)
  • Out of the Closet, Onto the Page: A Discussion of Williams’s Public Coming Out on The David Frost Show in 1970 and His Confessional Writing of the ‘70s (2011)
  • Williams and His Contemporaries: William Inge (2007)
  • Williams and the Grotesque (2006)
  • Looking at the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams (2002)
• Sakai, Takashi
  • Fukuoka University in Japan
    Takashi Sakai is associate professor of English at Fukuoka University in Japan, where he specializes in American queer theater and performance arts from the twentieth century to the present day. His essays on Tennessee Williams have appeared in the Journal of Modern Literature and Modern Drama.
    Journal Essays:
  • Shimpa, Onnagata, and Kata:
    Haruko Sugimura’s Gender Performance in the Japanese Premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire (2023)
• Sasser, M. Tyler
  • Instructor of English
    University of Alabama
    M. Tyler Sasser recently completed his PhD at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he studied the intersections of early modern boyhood, Shakespeare, and adaptations of Shakespeare, especially in children’s literature. His research appears or is forthcoming in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, the Shakespeare Newsletter, Children’s Literature in Education, Children’s Literature, and Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. His essay on Hamlet and contemporary fiction for boys is slated to appear in the forthcoming volume Shakespeare and Millennial Fiction. He is an instructor of English at the University of Alabama.
    Journal Essays:
  • Unraveling the “‘Desdemona’ Thing” in Tennessee Williams (2016)
• Savran, David
  • David Savran is a specialist in twentieth- and twenty-first-century U.S. theatre, popular culture, and social theory. He is the author of eight books, including Communists, Cowboys, and Queers, about Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. His most recent is Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class, the winner of the Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre published in 2008–09. He is coeditor of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre and is the Vera Mowry Roberts Distinguished Professor of Theatre at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
  • Conference Panels:
  • Out of the Closet, Onto the Page: A Discussion of Williams’s Public Coming Out on The David Frost Show in 1970 and His Confessional Writing of the ‘70s (2011)
• Schiavi, Michael R.
  • Assistant Professor of English
    New York Institute of Technology, Manhattan Campus
    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).
    Journal Essays:
  • Effeminacy in the Kingdom: Tennessee Williams and Stunted Spectatorship (1999)
• Schlatter, James
  • 
    Journal Essays:
  • Red Devil Battery Sign: An Approach to a Mytho-Political Theatre (1998)
• Schvey, Henry I.
  • Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature
    Washington University in St. Louis
    Henry I. Schvey is professor of drama and comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to coming to St. Louis, he was a professor of English at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where he founded the Leiden English Speaking Theatre. In addition to having published widely on modern European and American drama, he is the author of several original plays, including an adaptation of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. His coming-of-age memoir, The Poison Tree, was published in 2016. His writing on Williams includes the volumes Blue Song: St. Louis in the Life and Work of Tennessee Williams (2021) and The Plastic Art of Tennessee Williams: Expressionist Drama and the Visual Arts (forthcoming).
    Journal Essays:
  • In Search of a Plastic Theater: The Case of Summer and Smoke (2024)
  • After the Fox: The Influence of D. H. Lawrence on Tennessee Williams (2018)
• Shackelford, Dean
  • 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.
    Journal Essays:
  • “The Ghost of a Man”: The Quest for Self-Acceptance in Early Williams (2001)
  • The Truth That Must Be Told: Gay Subjectivity, Homophobia, and Social History in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1998)
• Shapiro, Dorothy
  • 
    Journal Essays:
  • Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay! (A One-Act Melodrama) (2016)
• Simões da Silva, Emerson José
  • Emerson José Simões da Silva has a master’s degree in education and society from Vale do Sapucaí University in Brazil. He works as a teacher and a researcher at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas.
    Journal Essays:
  • A Streetcar Named Desire in Brazil: A Brief Description of Selected Stagings (2022)
• Single, Lori Leathers
  • 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."
    Journal Essays:
  • Flying the Jolly Roger: Image of Escape and Selfhood in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie (1999)
• Sinyard, Neil
  • Emeritus Professor of Film Studies
    University of Hull, UK
    Neil Sinyard is emeritus professor of film studies at the University of Hull, UK. He has published over twenty books on film, including monographs on directors such as Wyler, Wilder, Hitchcock, Spielberg, Zinnemann, Roeg, Lester, Clayton, and Allen, as well as books on adaptation, film comedy, silent movies, representations of childhood on screen, and Graham Greene. He wrote the booklet notes for the Tennessee Williams on Screen season at the Irish Film Institute in 2011 and was a contributor to the book Modern American Drama on Screen (2013). He is working on a book on the films of George Stevens.
    Journal Essays:
  • “A Second Place to Dwell”: John Huston’s Film Adaptation of The Night of the Iguana (2016)
• Sykes, John
  • Professor of English and Religion
    Wingate University
    John Sykes is Mary and Harry Brown Professor of English and Religion at Wingate University. He is author of The Romance of Innocence and the Myth of History: Faulkner’s Religious Critique of Southern Culture (1990) and Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and the Aesthetic of Revelation (2007). His work has appeared in such journals as Flannery O’Connor Review, Mississippi Quarterly, Renascence, Journal of Literature and Theology, Religion and Literature, and Modern Theology and in the volumes Flannery O’Connor in an Age of Terrorism (2010) and Modern American Drama on Screen (2013).
    Journal Essays:
  • Artist as Savior, Artist in Need of Salvation: Val Xavier’s Evolution from Jesus to Orpheus (2016)
• Tischler, Nancy M.
  • 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.
    Journal Essays:
  • What Was He Reading? (2006)
  • Book Review: The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia (2005)
  • Tennessee Williams: Vagabond Poet (1998)
  • Conference Panels:
  • Williams and His Contemporaries: Lillian Hellman (2006)
• Vatain-Corfdir, Julie
  • Associate Professor of English
    Sorbonne Université
    Julie Vatain-Corfdir is associate professor of English at Sorbonne Université. Her research focuses on the dramatic text—on the page, on stage, and in translation. She is the author of a monograph on dramatic translation (Traduire la lettre vive [2012], winner of the SAES/AFEA book of the year award in 2013) and has edited or coedited Lectures de Tom Stoppard: Arcadia (2011), La scène en version originale (2015), and American Musicals from Stage to Screen (2019). She has published essays on British and United States theater and has translated into French plays by Thornton Wilder; Tina Howe; Henry Arthur Jones and Henry Herman; Susan Glaspell; and Sarah Ruhl. She is a coeditor of the e-Theatrum Mundi series for Sorbonne Université Presses.
    Journal Essays:
  • “Seuls les Inconnus Pouvaient M’aveugler le Cœur”: Reconsidering Cocteau’s Streetcar (2019)
• Voss, Ralph F.
  • Professor of English
    University of Alabama
    Ralph F. Voss is Professor of English at the University of Alabama, where he teaches classes in Rhetoric, Composition, and American Literature. He is the author of A Life of William Inge (UP of Kansas, 1989) and editor of Magical Muse: Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams (UP of Alabama, 2002). He has published articles about the friendship between Williams and Inge in the Tennessee Williams Literary Journal and American Drama. Voss is a member of the National Advisory Board for the annual William Inge Festival in the playwright's hometown of Independence, Kansas.
    Journal Essays:
  • An Alignment of Stars: Tennessee Williams, William Inge, and Margo Jones’s “Theatre ’47” (2007)
  • Conference Panels:
  • Williams and His Contemporaries: William Inge (2007)
• Walls, Alison
  • PhD Candidate in Theater
    Graduate Center, City University of New York
    Alison Walls is a PhD candidate in theater at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. An actor and director from Wellington, New Zealand, she also holds an MFA in theater from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in French literature from Victoria University of Wellington. Her current project examines the surrogate mother character in US popular culture, from 1939 to 1963.
    Journal Essays:
  • The Martyr in Williams’s Suddenly Last Summer,The Mutilated, and The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde (2018)
• Williams, Edwina Dakin
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    Journal Essays:
  • Diary Entries, 1931 to 1934 (2019)
• Young, Harvey
  • Associate Professor
    Northwestern University
    Harvey Young is an associate professor at Northwestern University, where he holds appointments in theater and African American studies. He is the author of Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body (U of Michigan P, 2010), winner of the 2011 Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies and the 2011 Errol Hill Award, and the coeditor of Performance in the Borderlands (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays (Northwestern UP, 2012). He is currently editing The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre for Cambridge University Press.
  • Conference Panels:
  • A Black Cat and Other Plays: African American Productions of Williams’s Drama (2012)
• Zúñiga, Laura Torres
  • Catholic University of Murcia in Spain
    Laura Torres Zúñiga is lecturer at the Catholic University of Murcia in Spain. Her research mainly focuses on Tennessee Williams’s short stories, although her publications also include essays on O. Henry’s fiction, film adaptation, and pragmatics. She is co-editor of two volumes—Constructing Good and Evil (2011) and Into Another’s Skin: Selected Essays in Honour of María Luisa Dañobeitia (2012).
    Journal Essays:
  • Autofiction and Jouissance in Tennessee Williams’s “Ten Minute Stop” (2014)

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