Academic CV
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Ph.D., Purdue University, August, 2001, English Literature
Dissertation: A British Stage of the Postmodern: Theatre as Cultural Capital in Tom Stoppard and Caryl Churchill
Committee: Thomas Adler (Chair), Arkady Plotnitsky, Paul White, Patsy Schweickart
M.A., New Mexico State University, 1995: Primary Area: Rhetoric and Composition
B.A., New Mexico State University, 1991: Majors: English, Philosophy
Monographs
Tom Stoppard: Bucking the Postmodern (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2012).
Journal Guest Editor
Review of Contemporary Fiction Special Issue, Novel-Writing Playwrights and Playwriting Novelists after Beckett (Spring 2014 Vol. XXXIV No. 1. – Published in 2016).
Edited Books
Routledge Handbook on Death and Literature, edited with Neil Murphy and Michelle Wang, June 2020.
Narrating Death: The Limit of Literature, edited with Walter Wadiak and Michelle Wang, New York: Routledge, October 2018.
Flann O’Brien’s Collected Plays and Teleplays (Champaign, Ill: Dalkey Archive Press, 2013).
Darkling Plain: Texts for the Air (by Aidan Higgins), (Champaign, Ill: Dalkey Archive Press, 2010).
Journal Article
“Myles na Gopaleen: Brian O’Nolan’s Parafictional Invention,” New Hibernia Review,(20: 1, Spring, 2016).
“Aesthetic Affordances: Computer Animation and Wayang Kulit Puppet Theatre,” Animation Practice, Process & Production, with Hans Martin-Rall, Darren Lim, Anthony Chansavang, 3:1-2, (Fall, 2014).
“Cloud Nine: Caryl Churchill’s Pre-emptive Response to her Critics,” Epsians, May 2012, 25-44.
“Digitally Augmented-Reality Characters in Live Theatre Performances,” with Stephen Frederick Fernandez, Russell Pensyl, and Lee Shangping, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, (5.1, Summer, 2009), 35-49.
Multiple-Author Journal Articles
“Experiential Storytelling: Adapting Shakespeare for Animated Virtual Reality, Animation Practice, Process & Production, with Tissina George, Hans Martin-Rall, (Fall 2022).
“Aesthetic Affordances: Computer Animation and Wayang Kulit Puppet Theatre,” Animation Practice, Process & Production, with Hans Martin-Rall, Darren Lim, Anthony Chansavang, 3:1-2, (Fall, 2014).
“Digitally Augmented-Reality Characters in Live Theatre Performances,” with Stephen Frederick Fernandez, Russell Pensyl, and Lee Shangping, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, (5.1, Summer, 2009), 35-49.
“Robust Hybrid Tracking with Life-Size Avatar in Mixed Reality Environment,” with Cong Thien Qui, Shang Ping Lee, William Russell Pensyl, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Volume 5622, 2009), 503-510
Chapters in Edited Collections
(with Hannes Martin-Rall, Grey Hodgkinson, and Tissina George), “Transforming the Bard through Digital Media: Modern Design Approaches for Shakespeare Education,” Design and Learning: The Things We Make and Why They Matter, (Springer, September, 2022).
(with Hannes Martin-Rall) “Adapting Gothic Literature for Animation,” New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass, Edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Donna Lee Brien, Routledge, 2015.
“Editor’s Introduction,” Flann O’Brien’s Collected Plays and Teleplays, (Urbana, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, 2013).
Published Plays
Published Plays
Los Chicharrones, The Massachusetts Review, (45: 3, 2004), 346-360.