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- “To Teach and to Mentor: Toward Our Collective Future” (2013)
- “Feeling Women’s Culture: Women’s Music, Lesbian Feminism, and the Impact of Emotional Memory” (2012)
- “Performing Jewishness In and Out of the Classroom” (2012)
- “Casual Racism and Stuttering Failures: An Ethics for Classroom Engagement” (2012)
- “On ‘Publics’: A Feminist Constellation of Keywords” (2011)
- “Unassuming Gender” (2011)
- “The Greater Good” (2011)
- “Colleague-Criticism: Performance, Writing, and Queer Collegiality” (2009)
- “Feminist Performance Criticism and the Popular: Reviewing Wendy Wasserstein” (2008)
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I’ve been reading around in the blogosphere, catching up on current debates and controversies. I noted with interest Laura Linney’s remarks, on the occasion of her Crystal Award for women in film, as well as playwright Mike Lew’s response to the Lilly Awards on his blog; Jonathan Franzen’s sudden and surprising shout-out bout the unequal [...]
Can’t Neil Patrick Harris (NPH) be hired to host all of the televised award shows? Good thing he’s already lined up to do the 2013 Emmy Awards in June. If the producers of the Oscars were smart, they’d hammer out a contract and sign him on. Compared to the puerile, offensive humor of Seth [...]
Noah Baumbach’s films are typically quirky and off-beat. Rather than detailing extensive narratives of modern life and relationships, he focuses on the smaller, episodic moments of interaction and reflection that become the essential stuff of our lives. Baumbach delivers exposition by accretion, typically dropping the viewer into a situation and a set of relationships illustrated [...]
Hello Friends, I’m finally returning to this blog, after too many months of other obligations that took me too far away.
As I begin posting again, I also want to call your attention to a few new additions on the rest of the site.
Under “books,” you’ll find the link to The Feminist Spectator in [...]
Watching this William Inge play, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, through the lens of 21st century America offers some interesting frisson between past and present. All the sexual repressions of the 1950s radiate palpably from the stage, but the overlay of a 2013 sensibility lets you see how gender performances [...]


