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Stanton B. Garner, Jr.

Selected Publications

  • The Norton Anthology of Drama.  Co-editor with J. Ellen Gainor and Martin Puchner (forthcoming Spring 2009).
  • The Absent Voice: Trevor Griffiths: Politics, Drama, History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999)
  • Bodied Spaces: Phenomenology and Performance in Contemporary Drama (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994)
  • Narrative Comprehension in the Theater (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989)

Representative articles

  • "The Gas Heart: Disfigurement and the Dada Body."  Modern Drama 50 (2007): 502-20.
  • "Sensing Realism: Illusionism, Actuality, and the Theatrical Sensorium." In The Senses in Performance, ed. Sally Banes and André Lepecki, 115-22.  New York: Routledge, 2007.
  • "Artaud, Germ Theory, and the Theater of Contagion."  Theatre Journal 58 (2006): 1-14.
  • “Urban Landscapes, Theatrical Encounters: Staging the City,” in Land/Scape/Theater, eds. Elinor Fuchs and Una Chaudhuri (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002): 94-118
  • "Physiologies of the Modern: Zola, Experimental Medicine, and the Naturalist Stage." Modern Drama, 43 (2000): 529-42. Rpt. in Modern Drama: Defining the Field ed. Ric Knowles, Joanne Tompkins, and W. B. Worthen (University of Toronto Press; 2003): 67-79.
  • “Theater and Phenomenology,” Degrés: Revue de synthèse à orientation sémiologiques 107-108 (Autum-Winer 2001): B1-17
  • "Framing the Classroom: Power, Pedagogy, Oleanna," Theatre Topics, 10 (Spring 2000): 39-52
  • "Staging 'Things': Realism and the Theatrical Object in Shepard's Theater," Contemporary Theatre Review, 8:3 (1998): 55-66
  • "Rewriting Europe: Pentecost and the Crossroads of Migration, Essays in Theatre/Études théâtrales, 16 (November 1997): 3-14
  • "Angels in America: The Millennium and Postmodern Memory ," in Approaching the Millennium: Essays on 'Angels in America,' eds. Deborah R. Geis and Steven F. Kruger (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997): 173-84
  • "Politics over the Gulf: Trevor Griffiths in the Nineties," Modern Drama, 39 (1996): 381-91
  • "Trevor Griffiths," in British Playwrights, 1956-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook, ed. William W. Demastes (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996): 183-94
  • "History in the Year Two: Trevor Griffiths's Danton," New Theatre Quarterly, 44 (November 1995): 333-41
  • "Raiding the Inarticulate: Pinter and the Politics of Silence," Cycnos, 12 (1995): 31-36
  • "'Still living flesh': Beckett, Merleau-Ponty, and the Phenomenological Body," Theatre Journal, 45 (1993): 443-60. Rpt. in Modern Drama: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, 4: 75-95.  Ed. Martin Puchner.  New York: Routledge, 2008.
  • "Teaching the Theater, Teaching Godot," in Approaches to Teaching 'Waiting for Godot', eds. Enoch Brater and June Schlueter (New York: MLA, 1991): 141-48
  • "Post-Brechtian Anatomies: Weiss, Bond, and The Politics of Embodiment," Theatre Journal, 42 (1990): 145-64
  • "Correcting The Space: Scenic Negotiation in No Man's Land," The Pinter Review (1989): 1-8
  • "Visual Field in Beckett's Late Plays," Comparative Drama, 21 (1987-88): 349-73
  • "Theatricality in Mankind and Everyman," Studies in Philology, 84 (1987): 272-85
  • "Time and Presence in The Winter's Tale," Modern Language Quarterly, 46 (1985): 347-67
  • "Shaw's Comedy of Disillusionment," Modern Drama, 28 (1985): 338-58
  • "The Tempest: Language and Society," Shakespeare Survey, 32 (1979): 177-87.

Honors

  • UT National Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award, 2008.
  • Liberal Arts Convocation Advising Award, Tennessee, 2004
  • Provost’s Outstanding Advisor Award, 2002
  • Lindsay Young Professor, 2001-
  • Modern Language Association Drama Division Executive Committee, 1999-2003
  • Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Essay in Criticism Award, 1998 (for "Rewriting Europe")
  • Liberal Arts Convocation Teaching Award, University of Tennessee, 1994
  • Distinguished Teaching Chair, 1997-2000; Phi Beta Kappa Certificate of Merit for Scholarly and Creative Work in the Humanities, University of Tennessee, 1992
  • Board of Directors, The Brecht Company (Ann Arbor, Michigan), 1988-90
  • Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award, University of Michigan, 1987
  • ACLS Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., 1986.
  • Editorial Board, Theatre Journal (1999-2004), Modern Drama.

 

 


Stanton B. Garner, Jr.

Contact Information

Stanton B. Garner, Jr.
Lindsay Young Professor
Department of English
312 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6937
or (865) 974-5401
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: sgarner@utk.edu

Education

B.A., Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D. Princeton University

Research

Modern Drama, Dramatic Literature and Theory