Martin Harries teaches at the University of California, Irvine, and works on twentieth-century theater, modernism, and theory. He is the author of two books, Forgetting Lot’s Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship (Fordham University Press, 2007) and Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment (Stanford University Press, 2000), while recent publications include “S.N. Behrman, Comedy, and the Extermination of the Jews: Broadway, Christmas Eve, 1934,” in Modern Drama. He is finishing “Theater after Film,” a book about the impact of mass culture on postwar drama.

Courtney Faye Taylor is the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022), selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths as winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Taylor’s poetry and visual art can be found in Poetry, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.

Isabelle Loring Wallace is interim co-director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia and a specialist in the field of contemporary art. She is the author of Jasper Johns (Phaidon, 2014) and is currently completing a second book about Johns that considers his work in conjunction with contemporaneous developments in the fields of genetics and psychoanalysis. Wallace is also a contributor to and co-editor of three anthologies: Contemporary Art and Classical Myth (Ashgate, 2011); Contemporary Art About Architecture: A Strange Utility (Ashgate, 2013); and Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art (forthcoming in 2023 from Routledge).