English Department Faculty

Books

• Dark Matter: Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance (University of Michigan Press, 2013)  Faculty Publication Highlights
• Wave (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2010) Faculty Publication Highlights
• The Stage Life of Props (University of Michigan Press, 2003)

Selected Articles

• Afterword. Theatre Things: Material Theories and Histories, ed. Andrew Lane Friedman and Eero Laine. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Forthcoming.
• "Epilogue: The Prop as a Stage of Art." Props/Requisiten: Staging the Object on the 'Stage of Art.' Frankfurt: Goethe University.  Forthcoming.
• "Thinking Through Phenomena: Theatre Phenomenology in Theatre and Practice," Theatre Journal 74 (2022). 
  
• “Beyond Sympathy and Ridicule: Re-visiting Frye’s Comic Catharsis,” The Hare: An Online Journal of Untimely Reviews in Early Modern Theater 5 (2021). 
• “Eliot and his Problems: Hamlet’s Correlative Objects.” Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance, ed. Brett Gamboa and Lawrence Switzky. New York: Routledge, 2020.
• “All’s I-L-L That Starts “I’le”: Mapping Acrostic Space and Ludic Reading in the Margins of the Early Modern Play-Text,” Renaissance Drama 48 (2020).
• “Private language argument I,” “Private language argument II,” “Beetle Haiku,’ “Ghost Practice: A Gloss,” in Imagined Theatres: Writing For a Theoretical Stage, ed. Daniel Sack. New York: Routledge, 2017 (prose poems).
• "Tragedy and the Common Goat: Deperformative Poetics in Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?" Modern Drama 60 (2017): 501-525.
• "Getting on with Things: The Currency of Objects in Theatre and Performance Studies." Theatre Journal 68 (2016): 673-84.
• “Spectral Readings.” Theatre Journal 64 (2012): 323-36.
• "Take Up the Bodies: Shakespeare's Babies, Body Parts, and Corpses," Theatre Symposium 18 (2010): 135-48.
• “How To Do Things With Demons: Conjuring Performatives in Doctor Faustus,” Theatre Journal 61 (2009): 1-22.
• “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 Cheese-Roll Under the Cocktail Cabinet: Pinter’s Object Lessons,” The Pinter Review Collected Essays 2003 and 2004, ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: University of Tampa Press, 2004: 29-38.
• “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.
• “Felt Absences: The Stage Properties of Othello’s Handkerchief,” Comparative Drama 31 (1997): 367-93.
• “Self-Consuming Artifacts: Power, Performance, and the Body in Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer,” Modern Drama 38 (1995): 336-47.

Essays in Edited Collections

• “Properties,” The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre, ed. Richard Dutton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 009.
• “From Technology to Trope: The Archbishop’s Ceiling and Arthur Miller’s Prismatic Drama,” in Arthur Miller’s America: Theater & Culture in a Time of Change, ed. Enoch Brater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005): 94-108.
• “Maria Irene Fornes: Acts of Translation,” in A Companion to Twentieth Century American Drama, ed. David Krasner (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005): 440-55.

Creative Writing, Books

• Wave (Editor's Choice Series Selection, Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2011) Review

Creative Writing, Journals

• Poems published in Southwest Review, Atlanta Review, North American Review, Margie, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry International, Dogwood, The Formalist, and elsewhere.

Creative Writing, Interviews and Readings

• Boston College Faculty Publication Highlight (video)
• Faculty Poetry Reading: October 25, 2011