Felicia Hardison Londré, the Curators' Professor of Theatre at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is also dramaturg for Missouri Repertory Theatre, Heart of America Shakespeare Festival (of which she is Honorary Co-Founder), and Nebraska Shakespeare Festival. She has served as guest dramaturg for The Great Lakes Theater Festival and worked with Actors Theatre of Louisville on its 1987 Classics in Context Festival. In 1989 she presented lectures in Nanjing. Venice, Moscow, and Stockholm. She has given her Shakespeare authorship lecture in Hungary, Japan, China, and at various American universities. In 1993 she was a Visiting Foreign Professor at Hosei University in Tokyo, and in 1995 she was Women's Chair in Humanistic Studies at Marquette University. She is currently president of the American Theatre and Drama Society. In October 1998 she received the University of Montana Distinguished Alumna Award. Her research areas are French, Spanish, Russian, and American theatre history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her books include: Tennessee Williams (Ungar, 1979); Tom Stoppard (Ungar, 1981); Federico García Lorca (Ungar, 1984); Shakespeare Around the Globe, associate editor under general editor Samuel Leiter (Greenwood, 1986); Shakespeare Companies and Festivals: An International Guide, co-edited with Ron Engle and Daniel J. Watermeier (Greenwood, 1995); Love's Labour's Lost: Critical Essays (Garland, 1997); and, most recently, The History of North American Theater: The United States, Canada, and Mexico from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present, with Daniel J. Watermeier (Continuum, 1998).