William Hutchings (Ph.D., Kentucky, 1981), Professor of English, specializes in twentieth century British fiction and modern British and European drama. His books are The Plays of David Storey: A Thematic Study (Southern Illinois, 1988) and David Storey: A Casebook (Garland, 1992). He has published essays on James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Alan Sillitoe, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Joe Orton, among others, in such journals as The James Joyce Quarterly, The Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Papers on Language and Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, and Modern Drama. He is currently working on Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: A Reference Guide (Greenwood) and an intertextual study of Sillitoe's novels. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on British Novel: The Modern Age, Modern British and European Drama, World Literature since 1660, and James Joyce.