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勛圖惇蹋 College
English Department

CermatoriJoseph Cermatori

Associate Professor

A.B., Princeton University
M.F.A., Yale University
Ph.D., Columbia University

Office: Palamountain 316
Phone: (518) 580-5163
Email: jcermato@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

  • Comparative Literature
  • Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Critical Theory
  • Modern and Contemporary Drama
  • Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
  • Opera and Music-Theatre
  • Media and Performance Studies
  • Queer Theory and Gender Studies

Publications

Book:

  •  (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, November 2021)

Articles:

  • ,CoSMO: Comparative Studies in Modernism 22 (Spring 2023): 68簫77.
  • , CoSMO: Comparative Studies in Modernism 21 (Fall 2022): 2126.
  • , Salmagundi 21415 (Spring-Summer 2022): 197200.
  • ,&紳莉莽梯;PMLA 136.2 (March 2021): 24648.
  • ,&紳莉莽梯;Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 32.2 (Spring 2018): 89103.

Reviews:

  • Shannon Jackson, Back Stages: Essays across Art, Performance, and Public Life (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2023), Modern Drama 66.2 (September 2023): 438440.
  • Florian Walzacher, ed., The Life and Work of Nature Theatre of Oklahoma (Berlin: Alexander Verlag, 2019), TDR: The Drama Review 65.2 (Summer 2021): 18385.
  • Penny Farfan, Performing Queer Modernism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), Criticism 61.3 (Summer 2019): 41720.
  • "Walter Benjamin, Fabulist" (multi-book review essay), Salmagundi 199 (Summer 2018): 214224.

Other Publications:

  • Recent theater and performance criticism in  and 

Selected Honors and Awards:

  • Anna Balakian First Book Prize honorable mention, International Comparative Literature Association, 2022.
  • Summer Research Fellowship, Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2022.
  • Helen Tartar First Book Award and Subvention, American Comparative Literature Association, 2021.
  • Faculty Development Grant, 勛圖惇蹋 College, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021.

Courses Taught:

  • SSP 100: Myth and Modernity
  • GN 151: English Literary Studies Colloquium
  • EN 105: Writing Seminar
  • EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
  • EN 215: Drama
  • EN 225: Introduction to Shakespeare
  • EN 229: Queer Theatre and Performance
  • EN 251: Special Studies in Creative Writing
  • EN 339: Queer Theories (and Practices)
  • EN 346: Special Studies in Early Modern Drama
  • EN 339: Drama and Modernism
  • EN 364: Contemporary Theater and Drama
  • EN 375: Literature and Philosophy