William Grange is Hixson-Lied Professor of Theatre and Film in the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at the University of Nebraska. The author of nine other books, along with several essays, book chapters, journal articles, reviews, and encyclopedia entries, Dr. Grange has also written two other books in the series of which this volume is a part. Readers will want to consult the Historical Dictionary of German Theater and Historical Dictionary of Postwar German Literature, both published by Scarecrow Press.
Grange has received several awards for his research and teaching. He was most recently named Guest Professor for American Film and Drama at the University of Heidelberg. He had earlier been awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna and was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Cologne, in both venues teaching in the German language. He has been awarded the University of Nebraska Vice Chancellor’s Award for Research and has received fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service in Bonn, the Dorot Foundation in Rhode Island, the Mellon Foundation in Pennsylvania, the Jane Harrison Lyman Foundation in Nebraska, the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C., and the Hixson-Lied Foundation in Nevada. He has also won awards for his teaching, and on three separate occasions he has been the recipient of the Nebraska Teaching Council and Parents’ Award for service to students.
An Equity actor for over thirty years, Grange has appeared in professional productions in New York, with Shakespeare festivals, in musicals as an Equity Guest Artist, and at summer stock theaters. He has also appeared in several student films at the Johnny Carson School, playing rogue detectives, disaffected professors, CIA agents, acerbic fishermen, and choleric authors. He also serves as the Carson School’s graduate committee chairman and in the Nebraska Academic Senate.