CONTRIBUTORS / COLLABORATEURS

CÉLESTE DERKSEN is a doctoral student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Her research interests include Canadian Drama (19th and 20th centuries), particularly women playwrights/performers, solo performance forms and feminist theories of performance.

ALAN FILEWOD is Professor of Drama at the University of Guelph. He has a particular interest in Canadian and postcolonial theatre historiography. Currently he is completing a book on the Mummers Troupe and is beginning a comparative analysis of labour activist theatre in Canada and Australia. His most recent book is The CTR Anthology.

ALAIN FOURNIER est directeur du module d'art dramatique de l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Il est aussi auteur, comédien et metteur en scène.

JENNIFER HARVIE is a lecturer in English and Drama at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, completing her PhD in Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include contemporary women's theatre, feminist theory, and postcolonial theory. Theatre Research in Canada has previously published her article on Judith Thompson's Lion in the Streets.

RICHARD PAUL KNOWLES, Chair of the Drama Department at the University of Guelph, has published chapters and articles on Canadian theatre and on Shakespeare in a variety of books and periodicals. He is currently at work on a book on "The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning: Contemporary Canadian Dramaturgies."

JEAN LAFLAMME est historien et auteur de plusieurs ouvrages et articles sur l'histoire du Québec. Ex-président de la Société d'histoire du théâtre du Québec, il poursuit des recherches sur le passé du théâtre québécois. Coauteur de l'Anthologie thématique du théâtre québécois au XIXe siècle et de l'Église et le théâtre au Québec, il termine actuellement une thèse de doctorat au Département d'histoire de l'Université de Montréal sur l'institutionnalisation du théâtre francophone à Montréal au siècle dernier.

BENOÎT LAPLANTE est professeur/chercheur à l'INRS/Culture et société.

DENYSE LYNDE is Associate Professor of English, drama specialist, at Memorial University, where she recently directed a production of Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer with a cast of professionals, amateurs, students and faculty.

MICHAEL MCKINNIE is an M.A. candidate in the graduate programme in English at York University. His research focuses on contemporary critical theory and Canadian theatre and drama. He is currently working as an assistant dramaturge with the Necessary Angel Theatre Company.

ANNE NOTHOF is an Associate Professor of English at Athabasca University. She has recently presented papers on the construction of a narrative of Canadian history in plays by James Reaney and Sharon Pollock at Canadian Studies conferences in Vancouver and Galway.

DON PERKINS has been reviewing and studying theatre in Saskatchewan and Alberta since 1978. The editor of Deverell of the Globe: Selected Plays by Rex Deverell, his doctoral thesis at the University of Alberta was "Revisionary Drama: A Study of the Contemporary Canadian History Play." He currently teaches at the University of Alberta and Athabasca University.

SHEILA RABILLARD is assistant professor of English at the University of Victoria. She has published essays in Modem Drama, Theatre Journal, Essays in Theatre, and is currently at work on a book exploring the epistemological demands modern drama makes upon the audience.

CRAIG STEWART WALKER is Assistant Professor of Drama at Queen's University. He has published in Journal of Canadian Studies, Compass and Essays in Theatre and has contributed an essay to The Legacy of Northrop Frye. He is currently working on a book about several Canadian playwrights.