John S. Bak is Professeur at the Université de Lorraine in France. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois, Ball State University and the Sorbonne in Paris. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Univerzity Palackého in the Czech Republic in 1995 and a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford (2014), Columbia (2013), and Harvard (2011) universities. He is the editor of Tennessee Williams’ New Selected Essays: Where I Live (2009) and the author of the monographs Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and Queer Masculinities (2009) and Tennessee Williams: A Literary Life (2013).