Comparative Drama

Jeffrey M. Brown is Associate Professor of English at Saint Joseph's University, where he teaches courses in modern literature, theatre, and the medical humanities. His current research considers the ways in which the theatre both models and elicits modes of affective engagement that are central to medical education, narrative medicine, and bioethics. His work has recently appeared in the journals Modern Drama, Text & Presentation, and Life Writing, as well as in the essay collection Cli-Fi and Class: Socioeconomic Justice in Contemporary American Climate Fiction (University of Virginia Press, 2023).

Araceli González Crespán is Associate Professor at the University of Vigo in Spain and a member of the NETEC research group (http://netec.webs.uvigo.es./en). Her current research deals mainly with female playwrights in contemporary American theatre and addresses notions of sexuality, gender, ethnicity, and difference. Her book Desafío y Convención. Imágenes de la mujer sureña en Lillian Hellman (2005) analyzes the representation of female characters in Hellman's southern plays. Her most recent publications are "The Cuban Rafter Crisis on Stage: Humanizing the Experience of Refugees in María Irene Fornés' Manual for a Desperate Crossing" in American, British and Canadian Studies (2022); and "Wonder, Refuge, Promise: Explorations and Discoveries of America in Maria Irene Fornes' Final Plays" in Latin American Theatre Review (2022).

Nicholas Duddy is a doctoral candidate in English at Balliol College, University of Oxford. Supported by a John Monash Scholarship, his research explores representations of suicide in Anglophone drama after the Second World War. His writing has appeared in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature, Cordite Poetry Review, Meniscus, TEXT: Journal for Writing and Writing Courses, and The Saltbush Review, among others. In 2023, he was a dissertation fellow at the University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Center.

Christine Froula is Professor of English, Comparative Literary Studies, and Gender Studies at Northwestern University. Her research on modernism includes "Orlando Lives: Virginia Woolf's Orlando in Global Adaptation and Performance" (2013), "Goldie's 'War and Peace': Marinetti Meets Aristophanes and Beethoven in Bloomsbury" (2020), Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde (2005), Modernism's Body: Sex, Culture, and Joyce (1996), To Write Paradise: Style and Error in Ezra Pound's Cantos (1984), and Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf (coedited; 2018). Dramatic adaptations include "The Words" (2021), the libretto for John Austin's opera Heloise and Abelard (2012) and "Emancipatory Legacies: A Séance" (2005). Current projects include "Make It Old New: Modernist Classics in 21^st-Century Art and Aesthetics" and a coedited collection of Bloomsbury plays.

Richard Gilbert is Adjunct Professor of Theater and English at Loyola University, Chicago. His research interests include theatrical violence, theories of representation, and adaptation. He is also a violence designer whose work has been seen in dozens of theatres in Chicago and around the country. He is currently working on a textbook for theatrical violence design, under contract with Routledge.

Jay Malarcher is an Associate Professor and Dramaturg at West Virginia University. A scholar of comedy, he has published extensively on all areas of comedy and is working on a book of comedy theory tentatively titled The Situation of Comedy. His first book, The Classically American Comedy of Larry Gelbart, is the definitive look at a legendary comedy writer. Jay also taught American comedy in Zagreb, Croatia, as a Fulbright Scholar during the 2009–10 academic year.

Carla J. McDonough is an Assistant Professor of English at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, specializing in Modern and Contemporary Drama. Her current scholarship melds ideas from performance art, art theory, antiracism and dramatic theory to explore ways that contemporary playwrights engage in cultural critique of racial and gendered narratives. She is the author of the book Staging Masculinity: Male Identity in Contemporary American Drama, and she has published articles in Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Most recently, her research explores comedy and satire as a method of social justice activism in the works of various contemporary playwrights and performers.

Laura Milburn is a doctoral student at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her thesis focuses on Noël...