Verna A. Foster is Professor of English Emerita at Loyola University Chicago, where from 1981 to 2019 she taught courses in modern drama, dramatic theory, and Shakespeare. Her publications include The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy (Ashgate, 2004) and numerous essays on early modern and modern dramatists, including Marlowe, Ford, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Beth Henley, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, among others. Her essays have appeared in journals such as Modern Drama, Comparative Drama, The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, The Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, and in collections of essays. Dr. Foster’s work over the last several years has been included in adaptation studies and includes the edited collection Dramatic Revisions of Myths, Fairy Tales and Legends: Essays on Recent Plays (McFarland, 2012), and articles on contemporary adaptations of plays by Euripides, Chekhov, and Boucicault. Dr. Foster served for many years as Book Review Editor of Text and Presentation, the annual publication of the Comparative Drama Conference. She is a member of the Conference board.