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Ruby Cohn (1922 - 2011) was for 30 years at UC Davis, where she was a member of the comparative literature and theatre departments and affiliated with the English and French departments. She taught courses on modern and experimental drama, Shakespeare's legacies in modern drama, dramatic genres, and Samuel Beckett and his contemporaries. She was one of the foremost authorities on the work of Samuel Beckett and published a number of books on his work, including A Beckett Canon (2001). Daniela Caselli is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester, UK. Hannah Simpson is Lecturer in Drama and Performance in the English Faculty at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the author of Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness: Pain in Post-War Francophone Drama (2022) and Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance (2022). She has edited special issues for Twentieth Century Literature, Medical Humanities and the Journal of War and Culture Studies, and is co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Disability book series. |
