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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). + 161 +
