Professor Brian Johnston

I write now to share with you notice of Professor Brian Johnston's plan to retire at the end of the current fall term.

Brian began teaching in the School of Drama in the fall of 1986, so he has spent a full two decades contributing to the intellectual richness and rigor of the School of Drama. We were proud to have offered a scholastic harbor while he created some of his most consequential work. As you know, Brian is considered the foremost translator of Ibsen in the field, and a formidable theatre scholar by any measure. Brian requested this retirement, ready it seems to begin a next chapter after "two decades of happy associations with the School and Carnegie Mellon."

We have all been enriched as; more importantly, have generations of students, by having a scholar of Brian's stature among us. I am very pleased that he has agreed to play an advisory role in the search for his successor, and that he will remain connected to the presentation of the Oresteia next spring.

I know you join me in acknowledging and thanking Brian, and in wishing him well.