Tony Stafford
Professor of English, UTEP, PhD Louisiana State University, tstaffor@utep.edu
Tony Stafford received his BA from Wake Forest University with a major in Philosophy and minors in English Literature and Latin, his MA from Texas Western College (now UTEP), and his PhD from Louisiana State University. He returned to Texas Western in 1964. He has served as chair of the department on four separate occasions, the most recent being 1997-2003. His academic specialization is dramatic literature, and, in addition to publishing Shakespeare in the Southwest: Some New Directions, he has published numerous articles on Shakespeare and other English Renaissance playwrights, such as Middleton and Shirley, as well as a number of articles on George Bernard Shaw and a book-length manuscript on Shaw. He has also published on American dramatists such as Mamet, Rabe, Albee, McCullers, and others and have made innumerable conference presentations on dramatic literature. He has also written some dozen plays which have been produced in major cities across the country and has also published a novel, The Grace of a Summer's Day. He teaches courses in Shakespeare, American drama, modern British drama, British literature, and has taught graduate courses in those subjects as well as Dramatic Comedy.