Issue 4—2001

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.

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Jean Kontaxopoulos

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.

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.

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.

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.

Christopher Conlon

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.

Christina Hunter

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.

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