R.J. Cardullo taught drama and theatre studies for over four decades at the University of Michigan, Colgate, and New York University. His critical essays and reviews have appeared in Modern Drama and other leading academic publications. Modern (ist) Drama: Essays in Criticism; A Casebook, published by Primus Books, gathers original essays on Western drama from the late nineteenth century through the early twenty-first, treating playwrights including Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov in chronological order.