Brenda Murphy is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where she has taught since 1989, following fourteen years as a faculty member and administrator at St. Lawrence University.  She is the author of The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity (2005), O’Neill: Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2001), Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage, Film, and Television (1999), Miller: Death of a Salesman (1995), Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theatre (1992), and American Realism and American Drama, 1880-1940 (1987), and the editor of Critical Insights: Death of a Salesman (2010), Critical Insights: a Streetcar Named Desire (2010) Twentieth-Century American Drama (2006), Understanding Death of a Salesman (with Susan Abbotson, 1999), The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights (1999),   A Realist in the American Theatre: Selected Drama Criticism of William Dean Howells (1992) and John Hay‑‑Howells Letters:  The Correspondence of John Milton Hay and William Dean Howells 1861‑1905 (with George Monteiro, 1980). She received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1975, and has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, and the American Council of Learned Societies.  She is a past president of the American Theatre and Drama Society and the Eugene O'Neill Society, and serves on the Boards of the Eugene O’Neill Society and the Arthur Miller Society.  The author of many articles and reviews on drama and American literature, her essays have appeared in such places as the Cambridge Companions to American Culture, August Wilson, Edward Albee, Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, David Mamet, American Women Playwrights, J. M. Synge, and Sam Shepard, the Blackwell Companions to American Literature, Tragedy and Twentieth-Century American Drama, and the journals Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, American Literature, The Journal of American History, PMLA, The Eugene O’Neill Review, American Drama, The Theatre Annual, Comparative Drama, Michigan Quarterly Review, South Atlantic Quarterly, The Southern Quarterly, Colby Quarterly, and American Literary Realism.  She is also a member of the Modern Language Association, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the Modernist Studies Association, and the American Society for Theatre Research.  Further information is available in Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in American Education, and Who's Who of American Women.