email: mcarlson@gc.cuny.edu phone: (212) 817-8877
Ph.D.in Drama and Theatre, Cornell University. The Sidney E.
Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative
Literature. His research and teaching interests include
dramatic theory and Western European theatre history and
dramatic literature, especially of the 18th, 19th, and
20th centuries. He has been awarded the ATHE Career
Achievement Award, the George Jean Nathan Prize, the
Bernard Hewitt prize, the George Freedley Award, and a
Guggenheim Fellowship. He has been a Walker-Ames
Professor at the University of Washington, a Fellow of
the Institute for Advanced Studies at Indiana
University, a Visiting Professor at the Freie
Universitat of Berlin, and a Fellow of the American
Theatre. His best-known book, Theories of the
Theatre (Cornell University Press, 1993), has been
translated into seven languages. His 2001 book, The
Haunted Stage won the Calloway Prize. His newest
book, Performance: A Critical Introduction,
appeared in a second, revised edition in 2002.
Marvin
A. Carlson,
Distinguished Professor (Graduate Center)