Comparative Drama

Crystal U. Davis is Associate Professor of Dance at University of Maryland, College Park. Her research explores implicit bias and how privilege manifests in the body. Her research has been published in the Journal of Dance Education, in the Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education, and in her book, Dance and Belonging: Implicit Bias and Inclusion in Dance Education (McFarland, 2022). Her performances span from East Indian dance to her postmodern choreography examining incongruities between what we say, what we believe, and what we do.

Elisabeth Dutton is Professor of Medieval English Language and Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Her research interests include Julian of Norwich, devotional compilations, and early theatre. Her most recent book, Dramatic Wardrobes (Chronos, 2023), co-authored with Racha Kirakosian, discusses clothing in English and German visionary and dramatic texts. Her research projects, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, include 'Early Drama at Oxford,' 'Medieval Convent Drama,' and beginning in 2024, 'Women, Martyrdom, and Religious Drama in the Abrahamic Traditions.' She is an experienced theatre director and combines archival work with research through performance.

Alan B. Farmer is Associate Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the co-creator, with Zachary Lesser, of DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks, co-editor, with Adam Zucker, of Localizing Caroline Drama (Palgrave, 2006), and has published widely on book history, Shakespeare, and early modern drama. He is currently working on two projects: a study of lost books in the early modern English book trade and another on the popularity of playbooks in Renaissance England.

Baltasar Fra-Molinero is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Africana Studies at Bates College. He is the author of La imagen de los negros en el teatro del Siglo de Oro (The Image of Blacks in Spanish Golden Age Theater) (Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1995). He is the co-author with Sue E. Houchins of Black Bride of Christ: Chicaba, an African Nun in Eighteenth-Century Spain (Vanderbilt University Press, 2019) and the editor of Don Quixote's Racial Other in Annals of Scholarship (2010). He has recently produced with Nelson López and Manuel Olmeddo Gobante a bilingual critical edition of the Spanish seventeenth-century play El valiente negro en Flandes (The Valiant Black Man in Flanders) (Liverpool University Press, 2023). [End Page 304]

Dian Fox is Professor Emerita of Hispanic Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. She currently writes about representations of masculinity in early modern Spanish letters. Her book Hercules and the King of Portugal (University of Nebraska Press, 2019) explores how iconic Iberian figures express and confound masculinist ideals of nationhood on the seventeenth-century Spanish stage. Among her recent publications are "King Sebastian of Portugal, Miguel de Cervantes, and Don Quijote: A Genealogy of Myth and Influence" in MLN (2020); and "Gender Reveal: the Achilles/Amadís Paradigm in María de Zayas's Amar por solo vencer" in Hispanic Review (2022).

Yang Gao is a lecturer in the School of Journalism and Communication at Yangzhou University. He earned his PhD from National University of Singapore. His research interests focus on the comparative studies of the dissemination and reception of Chinese and Japanese theatre in the early twentieth century in the West. He is the author of Reception of Japanese Theatre Troupes Touring the United States and Europe from 1899 to 1931 (Shanghai Jiaotong University Press, 2021). His recent publications include "'Purification' and 'Hybridization': (Re)construction and Reception of Theatrical Nationality in Western Tours of the Mei Lanfang and Tsutsui Troupes in 1930" in Theatre Research International (2022); and "'Re-Theatricalization' and 'Re-Totalization': The Historical Influence of Japanese Touring Troupes on the 'Revitalization' of Western Theatre in the Early 20th Century" in Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (2021).

Michael P. Jaros is Professor of English at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in dramatic literature. He teaches within the Commonwealth Honors Program, and he also works as a dramaturg to the theatre department. His research and publications focus primarily on Irish culture and performance in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as contemporary American drama. His...