Rebecca Kastleman
Postdoctoral Fellow
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-3pm
Class Schedule: TuTh 9:30-10:45
Specialties:
Modern and contemporary drama, theater and performance studies, transatlantic modernism, and world theater
CV
Education
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2017
A.M. Harvard University, 2014
A.B. Harvard College, 2006
A.B. Harvard College, 2006
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- “Introduction: Modernism on the World Stage.” With Kevin Riordan (Nanyang Technological University) and Claire Warden (De Montfort University). Modernism/modernity Print Plus platform. Forthcoming.
- “An Acquaintance with Religion: Pluralizing Knowledge in Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights.” Modern Drama. 62.3 (2019): 338-360.
- “Impersonating the Law: The Dramaturgy of Legal Action in the York Corpus Christi Pageant and John Bale’s Three Laws.” Theatre Journal 68.1 (2016): 37–56.
- “Games with Ghosts in Müller’s Explosion of a Memory: A Study of Pre-Ideology in the Müller-Wilson Collaboration.” Theatre History Studies 28 (2008): 112–130.
Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries
- “Performance, Theatre, Drama.” Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (2018). Forthcoming.
- “Henry Bial, Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage.” Modern Drama 59.3 (2016): 380–382.
- “Bertolt Brecht, ‘A Short Organum for the Theatre.’” In The Manifesto in Literature, 61–63. Detroit: St. James Press (2013).
As Editor
- “Modernism on the World Stage.” With Kevin Riordan and Claire Warden. Peer-reviewed essay cluster for Modernism/modernity Print Plus platform. Conducted a podcast in conjunction with the collection. Forthcoming.
Public-Facing Essays
- “No Space Like Home: Global Connections Bolster Local Artistry at Los Angeles’s REDCAT.” American Theatre 27.5 (2010): 60–64.
- “More Work More Pleasure: Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Game Plan Turns the Mundane into Marvels.” American Theatre 27.2 (2010): 22–24.
- Review of Susan Glaspell festival at Ontological-Hysteric Theater. American Theatre 27.2 (2010): 19.
- Profile of theater director Matthew Earnest. American Theatre 27.5 (2010): 21.
Selected Awards and Fellowships
- Howard Mumford Jones Prize (for best dissertation on 19th century lit), Harvard University, 2018.
- Frederic Wertham Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University, 2016–2017.
- Merit/Graduate Society Term-Time Research Fellowship, Harvard University, 2016.
- Bryden Scholarship, International Shaw Society, 2016.
- Jens Aubrey Westengard Scholarship, Harvard University (two-time recipient) 2015, 2016.
- Dexter Summer Fellowship, Harvard University, 2015.
- Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University (three-time recipient) 2014, 2015, 2018.
- Eric Cooper and Naomi Siegel Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University, 2012–2013.