EDUCATION

B.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.F.A. Boston University School of Theatre Arts
Ph.D., University of Michigan

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Specializes in dramatic literature, especially Renaissance and modern drama. Prof. Sofer holds an M.F.A. in Directing and is interested in performance as an aid to textual interpretation. A widely published poet, he also teaches creative writing.

COURSES

 EN082.03 - Literature and Society

 EN131.09- Studies in Poetry

 EN310.01 - Shakespeare

 EN577.01- Writing Workshop:Poetry

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

• “Maria Irene Fornes: Acts of Translation,” in A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama, ed. David Krasner (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005). 440-55.
• “Something Cloudy, Something Queer: Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! and Tennessee Williams’s Period of Adjustment as Problem Comedies,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 18 (2004): 37-58.
• The Stage Life of Props (University of Michigan Press, 2003).
• "Absorbing Interests: Kyd's Bloody Handkerchief as Palimpsest," Comparative Drama 34 (2000): 127-53.
• "No Ideas But in Things: Beckett's Uncanny Props," Text & Presentation: Journal of the Comparative Drama Conference 19 (1998): 123-29.
• "The Skull on the Renaissance Stage: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Props," English Literary Renaissance 28 (1998): 47-74.
• "From Technology to Trope: The Archbishop's Ceiling and Arthur Miller's Prismatic Drama," in Arthur Miller's America: Theatre and Culture in a Time of Change (University of Michigan Press, 2005).
• "Self-Consuming Artifacts: Power, Performance and the Body in Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer," Modern Drama 38 (1995): 336-47.

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION

Poetry Awards: First Prize, Iambs & Trochees Poetry Contest, 2005; Erika Mumford Prize, New England Poetry Club, 2005;
Morton Marr Poetry Prize, Southwest Review, 2001; Margaret Haley Carpenter Prize, The Lyric, 1998; International Merit Award, Atlanta Review Poetry Competition, 1997.

Teaching Awards: "Influential Voice," Sub Turri Yearbook, Boston College, 2002; Moscow Prize for Excellence in Teaching English Composition, University of Michigan, 1998.

Academic Honors: First Runner-Up, Barnard Hewitt Award for Excellence in Theatre History, American Society for Theatre Research, 2004; Faculty Fellowship, Boston College, 2003; Research Incentive Grant, Boston College, 2001; Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1997-98; Andrew Mellon Dissertation Candidacy Fellowship, 1996; Heberle Essay Prize, University of Michigan, 1995; Graduate Fellowship for Academic Excellence, Hebrew University, 1987-88.