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Stanton B. Garner, Jr.

Selected Publications

  • 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

  • "Physiologies of the Modern: Zola, Experimental Medicine, and the Naturalist Stage," in Modern Drama: Defining the Field ed. Ric Knowles, Joanne Tompkins, and W. B. Worthen, (University of Toronto Press; 2003) 67-79
  • “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
  • “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
  • "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

  • 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, 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