Role: Editor

Nishan Parlakian is emeritus professor of drama at John Jay College. He is a playwright and a director who has staged plays in Armenian and in English. He has written extensively on Armenian theater, and he has translated numerous plays. He is a past president of the Pirandello Society and coeditor of Modern Armenian Drama: An Anthology (Columbia University Press, 2001).

Nazan Maksudyan is Assistant Professor of History at the Sociology Department of Istanbul Kemerburgaz University and has held Wissenschaftskolleg and Alexander von Humboldt postdoc positions in Berlin at Zentrum Moderner Orient.