Issue 14—2014

Irene Morra

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.

Sophie Maruéjouls-Koch

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.

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.

Jacqueline O’Connor

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.

Alexander Pettit

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.

Laura Torres Zúñiga

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).

Bess Rowen

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.

2014 Tennessee Williams Annual Review Cover