Issue 11—2010

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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Dirk Gindt

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.

Mauricio D. Aguilera Linde

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.

Stefanie Quinlan

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.

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.

Thomas Keith

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.

Nick Moschovakis

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.

2010 Tennessee Williams Annual Review Cover