Tony Jason Stafford, Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, was born in North Carolina, received a BA degree from Wake Forest University, an MA from UTEP, and a PhD from Louisiana State University, with a dissertation on Shakespeare. With a specialty in dramatic literature, he has published over 35 articles on Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, Shaw, Pinter, and other British and American dramatis and teaches courses on both the undergraduate and graduate levels in those areas. He has served as Chair of the English Department on 4 separate occasions and been a member of the department for over 45 years. He has also written and had produced over a dozen plays and has a novel published.