CONTRIBUTORS

PATRICIA BADIR is currently at the University of Leeds, England, completing her doctorate in the area of Renaissance popular entertainments. She was co-winner of the Heather McCallum Scholarship in 1990.

SUSAN BENNETT teaches in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. She is currently co-editing with Tracy C Davis and Kathleen Foreman a volume entitled Feminists, Theatres, Social Change.

KYM BIRD is a doctoral student at York University in Toronto currently writing a dissertation on nineteenth and early twentieth-century feminist theatre.

JEAN-GUY CÔTÉ-, MARIE-CLAUDE LECLERCQ et CLAUDE LIZÉ, sont professeurs de théâtre et de littérature au Cégep de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue à Rouyn-Noranda depuis 1971-1972. Tous trois détenteurs d'une maitrise ès arts de l'Université du Québec à Montréal, ils sont activement engagés dans la recherche pédagogique et foridamentale. En 1987, ils fondaient le Groupe de recherche sur le théâtre en Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Depuis, plusieurs publications furent réalisées, en solo ou en groupe.

JOYCE DOOLITTLE, Professor Emeritus of Drama at the University of Calgary, is editor of the Red Deer College Press.

BARBARA DRENNAN is a member of the Association for Canadian Theatre Research and the Canadian Popular Theatre Alliance as well as a playful feminist. She is finishing her PhD at the University of Victoria, researching English-Canadian theatre history within the context of performance theory, poststructuralist criticism and postmodern aesthetics.

ALAN FILEWOD is Associate Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of Guelph, President (1991-1993) of the Association for Canadian Theatre Research and an editor of Canadian Theatre Review.

BARBARA GODARD is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at York University. She has published widely on Canadian and Quebec writers and on feminist literary theory. A translator, she has presented Quebec women writers Louky Bersianik, Yolande Villemarie and Antonine Maillet to an English audience. Author of Talking About Ourselves: The Cultural Productions of Canadian Native Women (1985) and Audrey Thomas: Her Life and Work (1990), she has edited Gynocritics/Gynocritiques: Feminist Approaches to the Writing of Canadian and Quebec Women (1987), and is founding co-editor of the feminist theoretical periodical Tessera.

JENNIFER HARVIE is a doctoral student in the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Her research interests include contemporary Canadian and Scottish women playwrights-particularly Judith Thompson and Liz Lochhead-and feminist and post-colonial theory.

STEPHEN JOHNSON, Assistant Professor in the Department of Drama at McMaster University, was assistant editor and research associate on the Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre. He has published articles and reviews in a variety of scholarly journals, is author of The Roof Gardens of Broadway Theatres, currently serves on the Executive and University Commission of IFTR, and has been a member of the Executive of ACTR/ARTC.

RICHARD PAUL KNOWLES is Chair of the Drama Department at the University of Guelph, and a member of the Mulgrave Road Co-op Theatre. He has published essays on Shakespeare and on Canadian drama and theatre in a variety of periodicals.

EDWARD MULLALY teaches theatre history and drama production in the English Department at the University of New Brunswick. He is the author of Desperate Stages, and various articles on Canadian theatre.

GLEN NICHOLS received his doctorate from the University of Toronto and is currently teaching dramatic literature and theatre history at the University of Western Ontario. His article, 'La Sc6nographie chez; les amateurs au Qudbec,' has recently appeared in L'Annuaire thidtrai.

ANNE NOTHOF is an Associate Professor of English at Athabasca University, and the host of 'Theatre of the Air' on ACCESS Network CKUA, which produces Canadian radio plays.

LAURE RIESE, professeur émérite d'études françaises A l'Université de Toronto, a signé plusieurs monographies, dont L'Ame de la poésie canadienne-française (1955) et Les Salons littéraires parisiens du Second Empire à nos jours (1962), aussi bien que de nombreux articles sur les littératures française et canadienne-française.

DENIS SALTER, Director of the Department of English Drama and Theatre Program at McGill University, has contributed articles on Victorian stage history, performance theory, and Canadian drama and theatre to a variety of periodicals and collections.

JERRY WASSERMAN is an actor and Associate Professor of English and Theatre at the University of British Columbia. He has edited Modern Canadian Plays and Twenty Years at Play: A New Play Centre Anthology, and appeared most recently in the feature film Alive.

JEAN YOON is a writer, cultural activist and theatre artist working in Toronto. She is the co-artistic director of Cahoots Theatre Projects and the former Cross Cultural Coordinator of Theatre Ontario.