Research
Interests:
Modern
and contemporary theatre and drama; feminist studies:
cultural theory in relation to theatre, performance and
visual art; performance studies: theatre and public spectacle
with a focus on fascism, genocide, public discourse, and
museums
Selection
of Recent & Reoccurring Courses:
Key
Debates in Cultural Studies (ACS 750); Contemporary Ethnic
American Drama and Performance; Contemporary Drama/Theatre/Performance;
Modern American, British, Irish, and Continental Drama;
Feminist Theory and Theatre; Women Playwrights, Performance
Artists, and Visual Artists; Contemporary Political Theatre;
American Culture Studies; Research and Professional Writing.
Selected
Publications:
Spectacular
Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust (Indiana
University Press, 1999).
Signs
of Life: Comedies of Menace by Joan Schenkar, edited
by Vivian Patraka, (Wesleyan U Press, 1998) 285 pages.
Author of Introduction, xi-xvi.
"Situating
Genocide and Difference: The Cultural Performance of the
Term Holocaust in U.S. Public Discourse," Jews
and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies,
eds. Jonathan Boyarin and Daniel Boyarin (U of Minnesota
Press, 1997) 54-78.
"Spectacles
of Suffering: Performing Presence, Absence, and Historical
Memory at U.S. Holocaust Museums," Performance
and Cultural Politics, ed. Elin Diamond(Routledge,
1996) 89-107.
"Local
Struggles/ Partial Explanations: Producing Feminist Theory
in the Classroom," with Ellen Berry, for Changing
Classroom Practices: Resources for Literary and Cultural
Studies, ed. David Downing (NCTE, 1994) 122-148.
"Robbie
McCauley: Obsessing in Public" The Drama Review (Vol. 37, #4, [T138] 1993) 25-55.
"Split
Britches in Little Women (The Tragedy): Staging
Censorship, Nostalgia, and Desire," The Kenyon
Review (Vol. XV, #2, 1993) 6-13, followed by my edited
text of Little Women (The Tragedy) 14-26.
"Pain,
Passion, and Parody: A Dialogue," with Jill Dolan, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism (Vol.
8, #1, 1993) 83-99.
"Fascist
Ideology and Theatricalization," Critical Theory
and Performance, eds. Janelle Reinelt and Joseph
Roach (U of Michigan Press, 1992) 336-349.
"Binary
Terror and Feminist Performance: Reading Both Ways," Discourse, "Performance Issue(s)" issue
(Vol. 14, #2, 1992) 163-185.
"Feminism
and the Jewish Subject in the Plays of Sachs, Atlan, and
Schenkar," Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical
Theory and Theatre, ed. Sue Ellen Case (Johns Hopkins,
1990) 160-174.
"Mass
Culture and Metaphors of Menace in Joan Schenkar's Plays," Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's
Theatre, ed. Lynda Hart (U of Michigan Press: 1989)
25-40.
"Lillian
Hellman's Watch on the Rhine: Realism, Gender and Historical
Crisis," Modern Drama (Vol. 32, #1, 1989) 128-145.
"Contemporary
Drama, Fascism, and the Holocaust," Theatre Journal
(Vol. 39, #1, 1987) 65-77.
"Staging
Memory: Contemporary Plays by Women," Michigan
Quarterly Review
(Vol. 24, #1, 1987) 285-292.
Sam
Shepard, with Mark Siegel, Western Writers Series
(Boise State University, 1985) 1-50.
"Notes
on Technique in Feminist Drama: Apple Pie and Signs of
Life," Women & Performance, A Journal of
Feminist Theory (Vol. 1, #2, 1984) 58-72, followed
by my edited text of Apple Pie, 73-132.
Feminist
Re-Visions: What Has Been and Might Be, co-edited
with Louise A. Tilly (U of Michigan, 1983) 335 pages.
Author of Introduction, 1-9.
Awards
and Honors:
2000:
Honorable mention, Joe A. Callaway Prize for Best Book
on Drama & Theatre in 1999 through 2000, NYU, and
Honorable mention, Barnard Hewitt Book Award for Outstanding
Research in Theatre History and Studies for 1999, American
Society for Theatre Research
1998:
Project Director, "Gomez-Pena/Sifuentes Lecture and
Performance," Ohio Humanities Council
1991:
NEH Fellow, Summer Seminar on Performance Theory, Modern
Drama & Postmodern Theatre, with Herbert Blau, Center
for Twentieth Century Studies, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
1989:
Kentucky Foundation for Women grant for a Summer Writers
Residency at Wolf Pen Women Writers Colony for five feminist
theatre scholars
1989:
Jerome Foundation Fellowship, Theatre Scholar in Residence
at New Dramatists organization for playwrights, New York
1985:
NEH Fellow, Summer Seminar on Fascism as a Generic Phenomenon,
Yale University
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