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English Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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The Made Man and the "Minor" Novel: Erewhon, ANT, and Empire
(University of Indiana Press, 2017)Bruno Latour has identified the “great novel” as a site for revealing the complex nature of agency in the Anthropocene. As it traces cause and effect through numerous, interrelated events, the “great novel” reveals a vast ... -
Ben Jonson’s Dead Body: Henry, Prince of Wales, and the 1616 Folio
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)This essay examines the 1616 Ben Jonson Folio in the context of the social, poetic, and bibliographical aftermath of the death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, in 1612. Those involved in the stated and implied social ... -
The Role of Séméiotique in François Delsarte's Aesthetics
(De Gruyter, 2017)This article introduces the aesthetic theory of François Delsarte (1811–1870) and his conception of semiotics. Delsarte created his “applied aesthetics” as a modern scientific method for artists, particularly performers, ... -
Iris Smith Fischer reviews Expecting the Earth
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Theatre at the Birth of Semiotics: Charles Sanders Peirce, François Delsarte, and Steele Mackaye
(Indiana University Press, 2013)This paper explores the role theatre played in the life of Charles Peirce and his second wife, Juliette, from 1884–1888. Peirce became acquainted with playwright and director Steele Mackaye, who trained Juliette in the ... -
Zip-Line, Fernie Alpine Resort
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Review of "Performing Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Lecture Tour" by Amanda Adams
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Review of "The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman" By Les Harrison.
(Mid-america American Studies Association, 2009) -
Review of "Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760–1850" by Jenna M. Gibbs.
(Mid-america American Studies Association, 2015) -
Transforming Captivity Narratives in Kevin Willmott’s The Only Good Indian (2009)
(Mid-america American Studies Association, 2016)In this essay, I closely examine Kevin Willmott's The Only Good Indian (2009), a post-modern filmic reflection on the Native boarding school experience, to think about how narrative forms associated with captivity of white ... -
Review Essay - New Genealogies of Performance
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Sassoon’s Fox-Hunting Man: The Sporting Character in The Memoirs of George Sherston
(East Tennessee State University, 2017) -
Review of Ray Parlour, The Romford Pelé
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Transported to Botany Bay: Imagining Australia in Nineteenth-Century Convict Broadsides
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-02)The speaker of this ballad (circa 1828) laments the fact that, though he was born of “honest parents,” he became “a roving blade” and has been convicted of an unspecified crime for which he has been sentenced to “Botany ... -
Crossing the Threshold: Zora Neale Hurston, Racial Performance, and Seraph on the Suwanee
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)This essay explores Zora Neale Hurston’s evolving discourse on interracial cultural exchanges in her various representations of a black female child artist. It examines her treatment of race, performance, and audience in ... -
Pastoral Paradigms and Displacements, with some Proposals
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"Une Exploration des Deserts de Ma Memoire": Pastoral Aspects of Levi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques
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Some Version of the Primitive and the Pastoral on the Great Plains of America
(Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications, 1979) -
Truth and the Pastor's Vision in George Crabbe, William Barnes and R.S. Thomas
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Collins and the End of the Shepherd Pastoral
(Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications, 1979)