English Department Faculty

Andrew Sofer

Professor

Department

English

Publications

Books

  • 聽(University of Michigan Press, 2013) 聽
  • 聽(Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2010)
  • (University of Michigan Press, 2003)

Selected Articles

  • 础蹿迟别谤飞辞谤诲.听Theatre Things: Material Theories and Histories, ed. Andrew Lane Friedman and Eero Laine. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Forthcoming.
  • "Epilogue: The Prop as a Stage of Art."聽Props/Requisiten: Staging the Object on the 'Stage of Art.'聽Frankfurt: Goethe University.聽 Forthcoming.
  • "Thinking Through Phenomena: Theatre Phenomenology in Theatre and Practice,"聽Theatre Journal聽74 (2022).聽
  • 鈥淏eyond Sympathy and Ridicule: Re-visiting Frye鈥檚 Comic Catharsis,鈥澛The Hare: An Online Journal of Untimely Reviews in Early Modern Theater聽5 (2021).聽
  • 鈥淓liot and his Problems: Hamlet鈥檚 Correlative Objects.鈥澛Shakespeare鈥檚 Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance, ed. Brett Gamboa and Lawrence Switzky. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • 鈥淎ll鈥檚 I-L-L That Starts 鈥淚鈥檒e鈥: Mapping Acrostic Space and Ludic Reading in the Margins of the Early Modern Play-Text,鈥澛Renaissance Drama聽48 (2020).
  • 鈥淧rivate language argument I,鈥 鈥淧rivate language argument II,鈥 鈥淏eetle Haiku,鈥 鈥淕host Practice: A Gloss,鈥 in聽Imagined Theatres: Writing For a Theoretical Stage, ed. Daniel Sack. New York: Routledge, 2017 (prose poems).
  • "Tragedy and the Common Goat: Deperformative Poetics in Edward Albee's聽The Goat, or聽Who is Sylvia?"聽Modern Drama聽60 (2017): 501-525.
  • "Getting on with Things: The Currency of Objects in Theatre and Performance Studies." Theatre Journal 68 (2016): 673-84.
  • 鈥淪pectral Readings.鈥 Theatre Journal 64 (2012): 323-36.
  • "Take Up the Bodies: Shakespeare's Babies, Body Parts, and Corpses," Theatre Symposium 18 (2010): 135-48.
  • 鈥淗ow To Do Things With Demons: Conjuring Performatives in Doctor Faustus,鈥 Theatre Journal 61 (2009): 1-22.
  • 鈥淪omething Cloudy, Something Queer: Eugene O鈥橬eill鈥檚 Ah, Wilderness! and Tennessee Williams鈥檚 Period of Adjustment as Problem Comedies,鈥 Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 18 (2004): 37-58.
  • 鈥淭he Cheese-Roll Under the Cocktail Cabinet: Pinter鈥檚 Object Lessons,鈥 The Pinter Review Collected Essays 2003 and 2004, ed. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: University of Tampa Press, 2004: 29-38.
  • 鈥淎bsorbing Interests: Kyd鈥檚 Bloody Handkerchief as Palimpsest,鈥 Comparative Drama 34 (2000): 127-53.
  • 鈥淣o Ideas But In Things: Beckett鈥檚 Uncanny Props,鈥 Text & Presentation: Journal of the Comparative Drama Conference 19 (1998): 123-29.
  • 鈥淭he Skull on the Renaissance Stage: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Props,鈥 English Literary Renaissance 28 (1998): 47-74.
  • 鈥淔elt Absences: The Stage Properties of Othello鈥檚 Handkerchief,鈥 Comparative Drama 31 (1997): 367-93.
  • 鈥淪elf-Consuming Artifacts: Power, Performance, and the Body in Tennessee Williams鈥 Suddenly Last Summer,鈥 Modern Drama 38 (1995): 336-47.

Essays in Edited Collections

  • 鈥淧roperties,鈥 The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre, ed. Richard Dutton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 009.
  • 鈥淔rom Technology to Trope: The Archbishop鈥檚 Ceiling and Arthur Miller鈥檚 Prismatic Drama,鈥 in Arthur Miller鈥檚 America: Theater & Culture in a Time of Change, ed. Enoch Brater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005): 94-108.
  • 鈥淢aria Irene Fornes: Acts of Translation,鈥 in A Companion to Twentieth Century American Drama, ed. David Krasner (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005): 440-55.

Creative Writing, Books

  • (Editor's Choice Series Selection, Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2011)

Creative Writing, Journals

  • Poems published in Southwest Review, Atlanta Review, North American Review, Margie, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry International, Dogwood, The Formalist, and elsewhere.

Creative Writing, Interviews and Readings

  • 艾可直播 College Faculty Publication Highlight ()
  • : October 25, 2011

Academic Honors

  • Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, 2014
  • Finalist, George Freedley Memorial Award for Outstanding Book on Theatre and Performance, Theatre Library Association, 2014
  • Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize,聽American Society for Theatre Research, 2010
  • Honorable Mention, Barnard Hewitt Award for Excellence in Theatre History, American Society for Theatre Research, 2004