Craig N. Owens, Editor, is Associate Professor of English at Drake University, where he teaches courses in drama, playwriting, and critical theory. He specializes in theories of staged representation, including performance theory, theatre ontology, and stage semiotics, and in the study of twentieth-century British drama. Besides working in his area of specialty, Owens has published essays on American film and television. He is a member of Steinsemble Performance Group, an ensemble committed to producing underperformed and undertheorized works of the modernist avant garde. He has contributed to Lance Norman's volume DISMEMBERMENT IN DRAMA/DISMEMBERMENT OF DRAMA, also published by Cambridge Scholars.