Theatres in the Round - Multi-ethnic, Indigenous, and Intertextual Dialogues in Drama

Dorothy Figueira is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia (USA). Her most recent book is Otherwise Occupied : Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory. She has published extensively on East-West literary relations, literary theory, travel narratives, and exoticism. She has served as President of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). Marc Maufort is Professor of English, American and postcolonial literatures at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
He is the current European Secretary of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). His most recent book is Labyrinth of Hybridities : Avatars of O'Neillian Realism in Multi-ethnic American Drama (1972-2003). Sylvie Vranckx is a Research Fellow with the National Fund for Scientific Research-Belgium. A PhD candidate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, she is writing a doctoral dissertation on the representation of trauma in the works of Aboriginal Canadian writers.