Annette J. Saddik is Professor of Theatre and English at the City
University of New York, teaching in the CUNY Graduate Center
Doctoral Program in Theatre and the English Department at New York
City College of Technology (CUNY). Her area of specialization is
twentieth- and twenty-first-century drama and performance,
particularly the work of Tennessee Williams. She is the author of
two books and one edited collection: Contemporary American Drama
(2007), an exploration of the postmodern performance of American
identity on the stage since World War Two; The Politics of
Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams’ Later
Plays (1999), which was the first full-length study of Williams’
late (post-1961) plays; and Tennessee Williams: The Traveling
Companion and Other Plays (2008), a collection of Williams’
previously unpublished late plays that she edited and introduced.
She has published essays on various dramatists in journals such as
Modern Drama, The Drama Review (TDR), North Carolina Literary
Review, Études Théâtrales, South Atlantic Review, Tennessee
Williams Annual Review, and Valley Voices, as well as numerous
critical anthologies and encyclopedias of theater history. Dr.
Saddik is working on a new book on Williams, The Strange, The
Crazed, The Queer: Tennessee Williams' Late Plays and the Theater
of Excess. In addition to the work of twentieth- and
twenty-first-century dramatists, her research interests include
women’s performance art, burlesque/neo-burlesque performance, and
European cabaret. She serves on the editorial boards of the
journals Theatre Topics and the Tennessee Williams Annual Review.