Issue 8—2006

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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David Radavich

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.

Claudia Wilsch Case

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.

John S. Bak

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).

Charles A. Goldthwaite, 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).

Brian M. Peters

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.

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.

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.

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.

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