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Associate Professor of English
Ph.D. 1995 (Comparative Literature), Yale; A.B. 1987, Columbia.
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Research Interests: Modern theater and mass culture; film; Shakespeare; theory; spectatorship
Affiliations: MLA; Modernist Studies Association.
Fellowships/Honors: ACLS/Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars: Fellow in Residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1987-92; Prize Teaching Fellowship, Yale University, 1990-91; Yale University Fellowship, 1989-90; Seymour Brick Memorial Prize for Playwriting, Columbia University, 1987.
Selected Works:
Forgetting Lot’s Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship. New York: Fordham
University Press, forthcoming, May 2007.
Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of
Reenchantment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Articles
“Regarding the Pain of Rats: Kim Jones’ Rat Piece,” TDR 51.1 (Spring,
2007) 160-65.
“Isabella’s Room, or Untimely Mediations.” In No Beauty for Me There
Where Human Life Is Rare: On Jan Lauwers’ Theatre Work with
Needcompany. Ed. Christel Stalpaert, Frederik Le Roy, and Sigrid
Bousset. Ghent, Belgium: Academia Press, 2007.
“Misrecognition and Antimodernism in the Grove Plays of the Bohemian
Club,” Modern Drama 47.3 (Fall 2004) 367-98.
“Richard Foreman and the Ends of an Avant-Garde,” Theatre Journal 56.1
(March, 2004) 83-96.
“Forgetting Lot’s Wife: Artaud, Spectatorship, and Catastrophe,” The
Yale Journal of Criticism, special issue on Visuality and Cultural
Production, 11.2 (Spring, 1998) 221-38.
“Flying the Angel of History.” In Approaching the Millennium: Essays on
Angels in America, ed. Deborah R. Geis and Steven F. Kruger. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1997.
“Homo Alludens: Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire,” New German Critique 66
(Fall, 1995) 35-64.
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