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CONTRIBUTORS
Márton Mesterházi took his MA at the Budapest Arts Faculty in 1964
(Hungarian, English and French). Ihe same year he was offered the job of
script editor at the Drama Department of Hungarian Radio, where he worked
until his retirement in 2003. He was responsible for radio and stage plays
written in English, French, Latin, Greek, and the languages of the former
Yugoslavia. His publications include The World of Sean O’Casey (monograph,
1984) and Ir ember szinpadon [Irish Man on Stage, 2006]. He took his PhD in
1987 with a thesis on the Hungarian reception of the same author, published
in 1993 (Sean O’Casey in Hungary).
Laurens De Vos is Assistant Professor in Theatre Studies at the University
of Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD in 2006 from the University of Ghent.
He is the author of Cruelty and Desire in the Modern Theater: Antonin
Artaud, Sarah Kane, and Samuel Beckett (Dickinson Fairleigh UP, 2011) and
Shakespeare (Lannoo, 2016) and editor of Sarah Kane in Context (Manchester
UP, 2010) and Beckett’s Voices/Voicing Beckett (Brill, 2021). He has published
articles on English contemporary playwrights such as Harold Pinter, Mark
Ravenhill, and David Greig, and on theatre makers such as Jan Fabre, Ivo van
Hove, and Milo Rau. To his research topics belong the dynamics of the gaze in
theatre and arts. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the European
Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance (EASTAP).
Anita Rákóczy is a Lecturer at Károli Gáspár University of The Reformed
Church in Hungary. As a dramaturg and theatre critic, she has reviewed
several international theatre festivals. She has conducted research on Samuel
Becketts Fin de partie at CUNY Graduate Centre New York as a Fulbright
Scholar, and also in the University of Reading’s Samuel Beckett Collection.
She has worked for the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute and the
International Theatre Institute (ITI) Hungarian Centre. She has published in
Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui and the Journal of Beckett Studies. She
was co-organizer of the 2017 Budapest IFTR Samuel Beckett Working Group
Meeting.
Teresa Rosell Nicolas is Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and
Comparative Literature at the University of Barcelona. Her lines of research
center on hermeneutics, dramatic theory and aesthetic representation in the
post-war period, and she is Principal Investigator on the project Comparative
Literature in the European Intellectual Space. She has published widely on
these topics and on authors like Samuel Beckett, Claude Simon, Herta Miiller,
and Jorge Semprtn. She has co-edited Joan Fuster: Figura de temps (2012)
and Comparatistes sense Comparatisme (2018, with Antoni Marti Monterde).
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