Issue 2—1999

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).

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R. Barton Palmer

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.

Linda Dorff

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.

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.

Lori Leathers Single

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."

Lindy Levin

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.

Michael R. Schiavi

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).

1999 Tennessee Williams Annual Review Cover