Issue 21—2022

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.

Mark Cave

Senior Historian
The Historic New Orleans Collection

Mark Cave is senior historian at The Historic New Orleans Collection, where he has developed the literary arts holdings for more than twenty years and has mounted numerous exhibitions on a wide variety of topics related to New Orleans history and culture. He is past president of the International Oral History Association and is the coeditor, with Stephen Sloan, of Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis (2014) and Oral History and the Environment: Global Perspectives on Climate, Connection, and Catastrophe (forthcoming).

Margit Longbrake

The Historic New Orleans Collection

Senior editor Margit Longbrake acquires and edits books and museum publications for The Historic New Orleans Collection. Among her edited volumes is Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War–Era Newspapers: A Bilingual Edition, translated and introduced by Clint Bruce (2020), winner of the 2021 Lois Roth Award for Literary Translation and longlisted for the 2021 ALTA National Translation Award in Poetry. As managing editor of the Tennessee Williams Annual Review she has overseen the first-time publication of a number of primary Williams texts unearthed from the archives. Before joining THNOC she worked for over a decade at the Modern Language Association, where she acquired and developed pedagogical anthologies and literary translations and contributed to the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook.

Maxim M. Gudkov

The award-winning stage and film actor Maxim M. Gudkov was born and lives in St. Petersburg. Since 2007, he has been an acting teacher and director at St. Petersburg State University, where he has directed productions of The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Suddenly Last Summer, and Orpheus Descending, among other plays. A scholar of United States theater and of US-Russian stage relations, he is author of more than fifty academic articles.

Michael D. Freese

Michael D. Freese is a specialist in international education who has overseen collaborations between Russian and United States institutions of higher education. He has co-taught an acting course in Russia that focused on works by Tennessee Williams, including A Streetcar Named Desire and Orpheus Descending.

Adriana Falqueto Lemos

Adriana Falqueto Lemos earned her doctorate in language arts at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo in Brazil. A teacher and a researcher at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas, she is the author of Literatura e videogame (2020).

Emerson José Simões da Silva

Emerson José Simões da Silva has a master’s degree in education and society from Vale do Sapucaí University in Brazil. He works as a teacher and a researcher at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas.

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.

Gary Harrington

Gary Harrington is professor of English at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland. His research focuses primarily on twentieth-century American literature and on the works of Shakespeare.

Tison Pugh

Professor of English
University of Central Florida

Tison Pugh is Pegasus Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. His books include Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon (2016), Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies (2014), and the edited collection, Queering the South on Screen (2020).

Michael Hooper

Michael S. D. Hooper is an independent scholar and private tutor. He is the author of Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams: Desire over Protest (2012) and several essays in the Tennessee Williams Annual Review, and he is the editor of the Methuen Student Edition of A Streetcar Named Desire (2009). He wrote the Williams entry for the online Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (2016) and has contributed to A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams, edited by Katherine Weiss (2014). His essay “Pedro Almodóvar’s Homage to Tennessee Williams” appears in Tennessee Williams in Europe: Intercultural Encounters, Transatlantic Exchanges, edited by John S. Bak (2014), while “A Spectral Future: Dementia and the Nonhuman in Marjorie Prime” is forthcoming in Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction, edited by Sarah Falcus and Maricel Oró-Piqueras.

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.

2022 Tennessee Williams Annual Review Cover