Williams, Gary J. (Gary Jay Williams)

PERSONAL:

Born in IA; son of Owen and Mary Jayne Williams; married Josephine Sayers, December 27, 1966. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: University of Iowa, B.A., 1960; Catholic University of America, M.A., 1966; Yale University, M.Phil., 1973, Ph.D., 1974. Religion: Roman Catholic. Hobbies and other interests: Poetry, jazz, travel.

ADDRESSES:

Home—University Park, MD. E-mail—gajowills@msn.com.

CAREER:

Charles County Community College (now College of Southern Maryland), La Plata, MD, associate professor of English, 1966-69; Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, associate professor, became professor, 1974-2002, professor emeritus, 2002—, associate chair of drama department, 1986-2001. Military service: Served in U.S. Army, Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.

MEMBER:

American Society for Theatre Research, Shakespeare Association of America, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, International Federation for Theatre Research.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grants from National Endowment for the Humanities, 1981, 1997; Folger Institute fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library, 1986, 1994; George Freedley Award, Theatre Library Association, 1998, for Our Moonlight Revels: A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Theatre; Stanley J. Kahrl fellow, Houghton Library, Harvard University, 1998.

WRITINGS:

(With D. Allen Carroll) A Midsummer Night's Dream: An Annotated Bibliography, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1986.

(With wife, Josephine S. Williams) In Her Own Right: Black Women Writing, a Theatrical Album for Six Black Actresses (drama), produced in Washington, DC, at Catholic University of America, 1989.

Our Moonlight Revels: A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Theatre, University of Iowa Press (Iowa City, IA), 1997.

(With Phillip Zarrilli, Bruce McConachie, and Carol Sorgenfrei) Theatre Histories: An Introduction, Routledge (New York, NY), 2006.

Contributor to anthologies and encyclopedias, including Timon of Athens: Shakespeare's Pessimistic Tragedy, by Rolf Soellner, Ohio State University Press (Columbus, OH), 1979; The Eugene O'Neill Companion, edited by Margaret Loftus Ranald, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1984; When They Weren't Doing Shakespeare: Essays on Nineteenth-Century British and American Theatre, edited by Steven Watt and Judith L. Fisher, University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA), 1989; Teaching Theatre as If Our Lives Depended upon It, edited by Bruce McConachie and Raynette Halverson Smith, 1998; and Staging Nationalism: Essays on Theatre and National Identity, edited by Kiki Gounaridov, McFarland and Co. (Jefferson, NC), 2005. Contributor to periodicals, including Theater, Theatre Journal, Theatre Research International, Modern Drama, Eugene O'Neill Newsletter, Yale Theatre, National Review, and Shakespeare Quarterly. Editor of Theatre Survey, 1995-2001.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Archiv, Volume 236, number 131, 1999, review of Our Moonlight Revels: A Midsummer's Night's Dream in the Theatre, pp. 427-429.

Choice, June, 1998, review of Our Moonlight Revels, pp. 1720-1721.

Comparative Drama, fall, 1998, review of Our Moonlight Revels, pp. 448-451.

Shakespeare Quarterly, spring, 1999, review of Our Moonlight Revels, pp. 91-94.

Theatre Journal, March, 1999, review of Our Moonlight Revels, pp. 92-94.

Theatre Research International, spring, 2000, review of Our Moonlight Revels, pp. 89-90.

Theatre Survey, November, 1999, review of Our Moonlight Revels, pp. 81-83.