Educational Background
- University of Pennsylvania, 1980-86
Ph.D. in Romance Languages, 1986
- University of Virginia, 1973-80
M.A. in French Literature, 1979
B.A. in French, Russian summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1977
- Université de Paris III, Institut de Langues et Civilisations Orientales, 1975-76
Academic Distinctions and Awards
- Barnard Hewitt Award, 2003, for outstanding research in Theater History and Cognate Studies, from the American Society of Theatre Research for Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends
- Honorable Mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize for Best Book in Drama or Theatre
- Finalist for George Freedley Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1999 for Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends
- Inaugural Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, 1993, French and Francophone Studies, awarded by the Modern Language Association, to Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama
- Official Visitor to the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. Spring, 1997
- Mary Isabel Sibley Award from the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, 1986-87
Research Interests
- Medieval theater and performance; medieval French literature
- Theater history; history of comedy
- History of rhetoric
- Performance theory
- Interrelations of law and literature
Major Publications
- The Farce of the Fart and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011
- Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009
- Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002
- The Medieval Theater of Cruelty: Rhetoric, Memory, Violence. 1999; rpt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002
- Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992
- & many articles in such journals as Mediaevalia, Modern Language Quarterly, Rhetorica, Theatre Journal, Yale French Studies
- Editor, special issue of Theater Survey, 45.2 (November 2004): "Theater History in the New Millenium"
Books In Progress
- Death by Drama II: Medieval Theater on Trial
Editorial Work
- Theatre Survey, Editor, 2004-2006; Associate Editor, 2002-2004
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