Contributors
Anna Louise Bates is an Assistant Professor at Empire State College. Her
educational background includes a Ph.D. in U.S. Legal History from
Binghamton University and an M.A. and a B.A., both in Historical Studies, from
the University of Houston Clear Lake. She has published a book, Weeder in the
Garden o f the Lord, about social purity crusader Anthony Comstock (1995).
James H. Forse is Professor of History and Theatre at Bowling Green State
University (Ohio) ^^4lere he teaches courses in medieval and early modem
history in the History Department and medieval and Tudor theatre history in the
Theatre Department. His publications include a book. Art Imitates Business, and
several articles on medieval and early modem theatre history.
Philip C. Kolin, Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi,
has published more than twenty-five books and over two hundred articles on
Shakespeare, American theatre, and American dramatists, including David
Rabe, Edward Albee, Adrienne Kennedy, and Tennessee Williams. In 2000,
Cambridge University Press published his highly praised theatre history of A
Streetcar Named Desire on the world stage, and last year Greenwood Pubs,
released his Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia, with one hundred and sixty
entries contributed by fifty-six Williams scholars worldwide. Kolin has also
published a business writing textbook. Successful Writing at Work (Houghton
Mifflin), going into its eighth edition this coming year. A poet as well, Kolin has
published two books of poems and his Wailing Walls, poems on social justice, is
forthcoming from Wind & Water Press.
Heather Lusty is a Ph.D. candidate in Modernism in the Department of English
at UNLV; her dissertation topic will center around WWI and memory and
constmctions of national identity in the British war novels of the 1920s. She also
holds a B.A. and an M.A. in European History as well as an M.A. in eighteenthcentuiy British Literature. She currently teaches a variety of courses in the
UNLV English Department, including Honors Composition and Honors
Literature, Business Writing, and World Literature.
Kevin A. Morrison has published essays and reviews on British Victorian
literature and late-twentieA-century American popular culture. He is on the
editorial board of World Order, a quarterly review of arts, polity, religion, and
society.
Donald J. Newman is an associate professor of English at The University of
Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, Texas. A specialist in the literature and
journalism of eighteenth-century England, his edited collection of essays on