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Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
University of Chicago, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, June 2001
University of Chicago, M.A. Comparative Literature, June 1993
University of Pennsylvania, Post-Baccalaureate Classics, June 1992
St. John’s College, B.A. Liberal Arts: Philosophy Major, Mathematics Minor, June 1990
CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Duke University, Department of Theater Studies
DISSERTATION
The Hellenization of Politics: Wagner’s Ring Cycle and the Greeks
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Hellenization of Politics: Wagner’s Ring Cycle and the Greeks, Cambridge University Press (under review)
Articles
“From Minstrel Shows to Radio Shows: Racism and Representation in Blackface and Blackvoice.”Journal of American Drama and Theatre 17-2 (Spring 2005): 7-16.
“Film Adaptation: From I, Robot to I Pagliacci,” Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Newsletter 11-1 (Winter 2005): 8
“Heroic Wounds: Drama, Epic, and National Identity in Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle.” The McNeese Review, vol. 42 (2004): 1-19.
“Performance Communities: Franz Schubert’s Die Winterreise and the British Romantics,” in Inventing the Individual, edited by Larry Peer, International Conference on Romanticism (2002)
“Music Drama or Music Parody? The Operatic Chorus in Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung .” Text and Presentation , vol. 22 (2001): 31-44
Review of Frederic Spotts’ Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival. Qui Parle 10-1 (1998): 113-118
“From das Volk to The Souls of Black Folk : Music and National Identity in Richard Wagner and W. E. B. Du Bois,” in AfroGerman Dialogues, edited by Olaf Berwald and Margo Crawford (forthcoming)
CONFERENCES AND GUEST LECTURES
“From Minstrel Shows to Radio Shows: Racism and Realism in Blackface and Blackvoice,” Modern Language Association Session, “American Dramatic Realism and Antirealism,” Philadelphia, Presenter, December 2004
“Poetic Frogs and Musical Princes: The Transmemberment of Poetry and Music,” Modern Language Association Session, “When the Words Come First,” Philadelphia , Presenter, December 2004
“Reaches of the Mind: Knowledge and its Limits,” Duke University, Conference Organizer, November 2004
“Opera into Film: An Evolutionary Model of Adaptation,” Presenter, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, New Orleans , November 2004
“The Institutions of French Opera: Methodologies, Issues, Contexts,” The Institutions of Opera in Paris From the July Revolution to the Dreyfus Affair: An International Symposium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, Round Table Discussant, October 2004
“Melopoetics in the Long Nineteenth Century: An Intermedial Study of Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts,” University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum, Presenter, February 2002
“The Politics of Form: Drama and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century Theory and Practice,” University of Pennsylvania German Department Colloquium, Presenter, January 2002
“Opera Goes to the Movies: Song and Cinematic Technology,” Contemporary Music Festival: Sights and Sounds, Indiana State University, Presenter, November 2001
“Escaping the Individual: A Noumenal Journey in Franz Schubert’s Die Winterreise,” American Conference on Romanticism: Inventing the Individual, Miami University, Presenter, November 2001
“Failed Music Drama as Successful Music Parody: Wagner’s Götterdämmerung and Aristophanes’ Frogs,” Comparative Drama Conference, Ohio State University, Presenter, April 2001
“Nothing Is But What Is Not: Greek Epic and German National Identity in Wagner’s Ring Cycle,” Bratwurst und Döner: Perspectives on German National Identity, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Presenter, March 2001
“Orpheus as Opera: The Translation of the Orpheus Myth into the Genre of Opera,” The Italian Studies Collective at University of Chicago, University of Chicago, Presenter, November 1997
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS
Franklin Humanities Institute Grant, Duke University, 2004
Duke University Instructional Technology Fellowship, Duke University, 2004-2005
Duke Center for Informational Technology Special iPod Investigation Grants , Duke University, spring 2005
Duke Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Grant , 2004-2005
University of Chicago Society of Fellows Harper and Schmidt Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2003 (declined)
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2001-2002
Honors, University of Chicago Dissertation, June 2000
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Film and Opera , Fall 2005
Radio: The Theater of the Mind, Duke University, Spring 2005
Performance Studies, Duke University, Spring 2004
Toward and Beyond Realism: Modern Drama from Ibsen to Beckett, Duke University, Fall 2003
Introduction to Theater Studies, Duke University, Fall 2003-present
History of Opera , University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2002
Literature and Music in the Long Nineteenth Century, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2001
Introduction to Music Analysis, University of Chicago, Graham School, Winter 2001
Greek Thought and Literature, University of Chicago, Winter 2001
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC PERFORMANCES
Angels in America , Duke University, Dramaturge, Spring 2005
Hapgood , Duke University, Dramaturge, Fall 2004
Ghosts , Duke University, Dramaturge, Fall 2004
Why Things Burn, Duke University, Dramaturge, Fall 2003
Singing Through the Veil, Duke University, Composer, December 2003
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Director of Undergraduate Studies , Duke University, Department of Theater Studies, Fall 2005 to Present
Academic Dean, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth, Summer 2000 and Summer 2001
Assistant Academic Dean, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth, Summer 1999
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
History and Theory of Opera
African American Literature and Music
Music Theory and Composition
Performance Studies
Modern Drama
Classics
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Classical Greek: Fluent
German: Intermediate
French: Intermediate
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Musicological Society
College Music Society
Modern Language Association
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
REFERENCES
Sander Gilman , Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts, Sciences and Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago; Email: sgilman@uic.edu, Telephone: (312) 413-9017
David Bevington , Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago ; Email: bevi@midway.uchicago.edu, Telephone: (773) 702-9899
Martha Feldman , Professor of Music, University of Chicago ; Email: rore@midway.uchicago.edu, Telephone: (773) 702-8697
John Clum , Professor of Theater Studies Duke University, Email: jclum@duke.edu; Telephone: 919-660-3350
Michael P. Steinberg, Professor of History, Cornell University ; Email: mps4@cornell.edu, Telephone: (607) 255-2057