Years at Knox: 1998 to present Education
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 1995, Princeton University
M.A., Comparative Literature, 1989, University of California Los Angeles
B.A., German and French, 1986, University of London, Goldsmiths' College Teaching Interests
European theatre, dramaturgy, theatre history, playwriting Recent Scholarly Achievements
Productions
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Presentations
Grants
Involvement
Productions
Translator (from German). The Sexual Neuroses of our Parents by Lukas Bärfuss, Gate Theatre, London, 2007. Director. Nora by Ingmar Bergman, adapted from Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House, Knox College, 2006 Director and co-translator (with Carl R. Mueller). Round Dance by Arthur Schnitzler, Knox College, 2005. Translator (from German) and director, staged reading. Dog, Woman, Man by Sibylle Berg (inspired by a story by Yael Hedaya), Knox College, 2002. Co-director (with Robert Whitlatch). The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare, Knox College, 2002. Co-director (with Elizabeth Carlin Metz). War and Peace, adapted from Leo Tolstoy by Helen Edmundson, Knox College, 2001. Director and co-translator (with Colin Duckworth). Chamber Theatre: Five Plays by Jean Tardieu, Knox College, 1999.
Publications
Translator (from German). The Sexual Neuroses of our Parents by Lukas Bärfuss. Nick Hern Books, 2007. Translator (from French). "Rue Laferrière" by Jacques Réda, Two Lines, 2007. Translator (from German). "Inspired by Football" by Ralf Rothmann, Stand, 2007. Translator (from German). "The Speech-Animal" by Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Chelsea, 2006. "What's so great about new plays?" LMDA Review: Journal of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, 2005. "Merdre! Performing Filth in the Bourgeois Public Sphere." Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life. Edited by William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson. University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Translation (from French). "Oswald and Zénaïde, or Asides" by Jean Tardieu, Absinthe: New European Writing, 2005. Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience. Oxford: Praeger Publishers, 2003. "Shakespeare on Stage in Pre-War Germany: From the Memoirs of Fritz Kortner," [an annotated series of excerpts translated from German]. The Upstart Crow, 2003. Presentations
Invited participant in workshop at the European University Institute, Florence, June 2007: Studying Historical Audiences' Reception. What Price Staging? Adaptation and Compromise in Theater Translation. Panelist. American Literary Translators Association Conference, Bellevue, Washington. Excerpt from Rue Laferriere. Bilingual reading. American Literary Translators Association Conference, Bellevue, Washington. Translator. "The Sexual Neuroses of our Parents." ("Die Sexuellen Neurosen Unserer Eltern"). Stage reading. Goethe Institut, Chicago, Illinois; Martin E. Segal Theatre Centre, New York City. Translator. "The Ballad of the Pine Tree Killer." ("Die Ballade Vom Nadelbaumkiller"). Staged reading. New German Voices reading series. German Theatre Abroad's Stadttheater, New York festival, Here Arts Center, New York City. New German Voices reading series. German Theatre Abroad's Stadttheater, New York festival, HERE Arts Center, New York City. "Negotiating Theatre's Capitals: London and New York." Paper, American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Toronto, Canada. Script-reading, Literary Wing of Lark Play Development Center, New York Theatre Workshop and Flea Theatre, New York, New York.
Dramaturg, 24Seven Lab Workshop, New York, New York. Grants
U.S. Department of Education Undergraduate International Education and Foreign Language Program travel grant, awarded through Knox College, 2002. Involvement
London Director, "London & Florence: Arts in Context," ACM program, 2003 and 2007. Judge, American Literary Translators Association, 2003 and 2005. Judge, American Literary Translators Association National Translation Award, 2005.
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