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    1974 B.A. University of California, Berkeley, Comparative Literature.
    1975 M.A. University of Chicago, Religious Studies.
    Thesis: HERMENEUTICS AND TRANSFORMATION: READING LITERATURE.
    Committee: Anthony Yu (Chair), Mircea Eliade, Paul Ricoeur.

    1978 M.A. The Johns Hopkins University, Comparative Literature.
    1981 Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, Comparative Literature.

    Dissertation: WHEN THEATER BECOMES A BOOK: THEATRICAL MARGINALITY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND AND FRANCE.
    Committee: Stephen Orgel (Chair), Louis Marin, Michael Fried.


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    Positions
    1977 Visiting Lecturer, Coppin State College, Baltimore, Maryland.
    1978-79 Lecturer, Université René Descartes (Université de Paris, V), France.
    1979-86 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Cornell University.
    1986-92 Associate Professor, Department of English, Cornell University.
    1988-90 Director of Undergraduate Studies, English, Cornell University.
    1992-95 Director of Graduate Studies (GFR), English, Cornell University.
    1992 Professor, Department of English, Cornell University.
    Graduate Fields of English, Film & Video Studies, Romance Studies, Theatre Arts, and Lesbian, Bisexual & Gay Studies.
    1996 Director of Graduate Studies, Film & Video, Cornell University
    1997 Acting Director of Graduate Studies, English


    Awards

    1974 High Honors, University of California, Berkeley.
    1974-75 Rockefeller Brothers, Theological Fellowship.
    1975-79 The Johns Hopkins University Graduate Fellowship.
    1977-78 Alliance Française de New York Zilkha Scholarship.
    1977-78 Fulbright Advanced Student Fellowship (France).
    1981 Summer Research Grant, Cornell University.
    1983 Humanities Research Grant, Cornell University.
    1987 Camargo Foundation Fellowship, Cassis, France.
    1988 Common Learning Grant, Cornell University.
    1990 Society for the Humanities Faculty Fellow, Cornell University.
    1993 Grant for Collaborative Research in France, Cornell University.
    1994 Grant for Collaborative Research in Video, Cornell University.
    1995 Grant for Collaborative Research in France, Cornell University.
    1997 Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities.
    1997 Grant for Collaborative Research in Digital Culture, Cornell University.
    1998 Society for the Humanities Faculty Fellow, Cornell University.


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    Professional1985-86 Governing Council, University and College Theatre Association.
    1986-87 Dissertation Award Committee, American Theatre Association.
    1986-87 Chair/Secretary, Eighteenth-Century French Literature Section, Northeast Modern Language Association.
    1988-90 Delegate Assembly, Modern Language Association.
    1989 Judge, Theory and Criticism Debut Panel, Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
    1994-- Executive Committee, Literature and the Other Arts, Modern Language Association.


    Editorial

    1976-77 Editorial Assistant, MLN.
    1976-77 Editorial Board, Glyph.
    1978 Paris Correspondant, MLN.
    1981-83 Correspondant, Pratiques Théatrales, Montreal.
    1984-85 Coeditor, Theatre Journal.
    1986-87 Editor, Theatre Journal.
    1988-93 Associate Editor, Theatre Journal.
    1988-- Editorial Board, Theater/Theory/Text Performance Series, University of Michigan Press.
    1992-- Editorial Board, diacritics.
    1994-- Editorial Board, L'Annuaire théatrale.
    1996-- Advisory Board, PMLA.
    1997-- Editorial Board, Sites: The Journal of 20th-Century/Contemporary French Studies


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    Forthcoming
  • Ed. with Alan Smith,
    Repossessions: Psychoanalysis and the Question of Early-Modern Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1997).

  • "'Animé d'un regard': Televisual Specters in Racine," L'Esprit Créateur (1997).

  • "Jean-Louis Bossier: Flora petrinsularis," in Margaret Morse, Digital Installations at ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe).

  • "The Idea of Cinema," in Lawrence D. Kritzman, ed., The Columbia History of Twentieth Century French Thought (Columbia University Press), in progress.

  • "Louis Marin," in Lawrence D. Kritzman, ed., The Columbia History of Twentieth Century French Thought (Columbia University Press), in progress.

  • "The Errancy of Light," Threshold, The Powerplant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, in progress.


    Books

  • Theatrical Legitimation: allegories of Genius In XVIIth-Century England and France(Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).

  • Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and Canvas (London: Routledge, 1993).

  • Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, Art (London: Routledge, 1997).

  • Ed., Mimesis, Masochism & Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Though (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).


    Chapters in Books

  • "Ben Jonson's Folio As Textual Performance," in Acts of the Tenth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, ed. D W. Fokkema (New York: Garland Press, Spring, 1985), II: 325-330.

  • "Othello's Foul Generic Thoughts," Persons in Groups: Social Behavior as Identity Formation in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, ed. Richard C. Trexler (Binghamton: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1985), 67-78.

  • "1634, 13 March. The Académie Francaise, Created by Cardinal Richeliu, Holds Its First Meeting," in New History of French Literature, ed. Denis Hollier Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989), 267-73. French translation (Paris: Bordas, 1993).

  • "The Play of Letters: Possession and Writing in Chucky's Hunch," in Feminine Focus: The New Women Playwrights. ed. Enoch Brater (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 186-209.

  • "Le cliché taché" rétrospection et décomposition cinématographique," trans. Eliane Dal Molin, in Le théâtre au Québec: mémoire et appropriation. L'annuaire théâtral, 5/6 (Fall 1988/Spring 1989), 307-18.

  • "Facing the Camera's Eye: Black and White Terrain in Women's Drama," in Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (New York: Meridian, 1990), 155-75.

  • "On the Line," Blank Page 4 (London: B4 Publishing, 1990).

  • "The Contrast Hurts: Censoring the Ladies Liberty in Performance," in The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere, ed. Richard Burt (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994), 260-88.

  • "Introduction: The Mise-en-scene of the Cultural," in Murray, ed., Mimesis, Masochism & Mime, 1-26.



    Articles

  • "A Marvelous Guide to Anamorphosis: Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre," MLN, 91, No. 6 (December, 1976), 1276-95.

  • "Kenneth Burke's Logology: A Mock Logomachy," Glyph 2 (1977), 144-61.

  • "Richelieu's Theater: The Mirror of a Prince," Renaissance Drama, NS 8 (1977), 275- 97.

  • "Non-Representation in La pratique du thé â tre," Papers on Seventeenth-Century French Literature, 9, No. 16 (1982), 57-74.

  • "Theatrical Legitimation: Forms of French Patronage and Portraiture," PMLA, 98, No. 2 (March, 1983), 170-82.

  • "From Foul Sheets to Legitimate Model: Antitheater, Text, Ben Jonson," New Literary History, 14 (Spring, 1983), 641-64.

  • "Patriarchal Panopticism, Or, The Seduction of a Bad Joke: Getting Out in "Theory," Theatre Journal, 35, No. 3 (October, 1983), 376-88.

  • "Theatricality of the Van-Guard: Ideology and Contemporary America Theatree," Performing Arts Journal 24 (Fall, 1984), 93-99.

  • "Terror and Judgment: Consenting with Hassan, Graff (and Now Booth!)," boundary 2, 12, No. 3/13, No. 1 (Spring/Fall, 1984), 213-34.

  • "What's happening?" [Review essay of Lyotard's texts on the painters Adami, Francken, Arkawa], Diacritics, 14, No. 3 (Fall, 1984), 100-110.

  • "Screening the Camera's Eye: Black and White Confrontations of Technological Representation," Modern Drama, 28, No. 1 (March, 1985), 110-124.

  • "Subliminal Libraries: Showing Lady Liberty and Documenting Death," Discourse, 9 (Spring/Summer, 1987), 107-24.

  • "Duck and Cover? 'Radioactive, Inactives Portraits' by Nagatani and Tracey," Q, A Journal of Art (April 1990), 31-33.

  • "Reading in the Dark: Cinema Studies at Cornell," College of Arts & Sciences Newsletter, Cornell University (Spring 1991), 6.

  • "Translating Montaigne's Crypts: Melancholic Relations and the Sites of Altarbiography," in Jonathan Crewe, ed., Reconfiguring the Renaissance: Essays in Critical Materialism, Bucknell Review, 35, No. 2 (1992), 121-49.

  • With Rebecca Egger, "Montage, Mastery, and Masquerade: Interview of Mary Kelly," The Bookpress, 2, 3 (April 1992), 8, 14.

  • "Televisual Fears and Warrior Myths: Mary Kelly Meets Dawn Dedeaux," Camera Obscura, 32 (September-January, 1993-94), 125-60.

  • "In Exile at Home: Tornado Breath and Unrighteous Fantasy in Robbie McCauley's Indian Blood, in Discourse, 16, No. 3 (Spring 1994), 29-45.

  • "American Shakespeare, or the Bourgie-Woogie Blues," review essay of Michael D. Bristol, Shakespeare's America, America's Shakespeare (Routledge). American Quarterly, 46, No. 2 (June 1994), 167-75.

  • "Philosophical Antibodies: Grotesque Fantasy in a French Stoic Fiction," Yale French Studies, 86 (1994), 143-63.

  • Contribution to Forum on "Interdisciplinarity," PMLA, 111, No. 2 (March 1996), 279-80.

  • "Et in Arcadia Video: Poussin' the Image of Culture with Marin and Kuntzel," MLN, 112, No. 3 (April, 1997). 431-53

  • "You Are How You Read: Baroque Chao-Errancy in Greenaway and Deleuze," Iris, 23 (Spring, 1997), 87-107.

  • "Let's Support the NEH," Guest Column, FoxNews Online, July 21, 1997.