Classes

 

Modern Drama I; Modern Drama II: Survey lecture of nineteenth and twentieth-century European and American drama and theater history.

 

The Contemporary Novel: Coetzee and Ishiguro

 

Theater and Philosophy

Drama, Theater, Theory: Introduction to the theater major, including theatrical analysis, theater history, theory, and performance. Wide-ranging readings from

classical Greek to contemporary drama.

 

Staging Modernism: A seminar that focuses and the tension between text and theater in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and theater.

 

Theory and Performance: An introduction to theory as it applies to theater and performance, including readings in performance studies.

 

Machine Art: A seminar that explores the discontent with live actors and various attempts to replace actors with machines, automatons, puppets, and objects

from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.

 

Modernity and the Manifesto: A seminar that examines modernism through manifestos and their impact on the theatrical avant-garde.

 

Literature Humanities: A year-long core course ranging from Homer to Virginia Woolf.