About
silent film comedy, Chaplin, Keaton, satire, comedy memoir (Sedaris, Fey, Handler, etc.). My books include “Syd Chaplin: A Biography” (2010), an edition of Charlie Chaplin’s “A Comedian Sees the World” coming out this fall in both English and Spanish. I have a chapter in Larry Howe, Ben Click and Jim Caron’s “Refocusing Chaplin: A Screen Icon through Critical Lenses” (2013). My next book project is a cultural study of the Chaplin persona in America, 1952-77. I’ll be giving a keynote speech at the Cineteca di Bologna’s “Chaplin 100” celebration in Bologna, Italy this June. Education
Ph. D. English Literature Ohio University Publications
Ed.
A Comedian Sees the World by Charlie Chaplin. Columbia, MO: U of MO P, 2014.
“Chaplin and the Static Image: A Barthesian Analysis of the Visual in
My Trip Abroad and “A Comedian Sees the World,” in
Re-focusing Chaplin: A Screen Icon in Critical Contexts. Eds. Larry Howe, James Caron and Benjamin Click. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press (2013): 25-43.
“Chaplin and Crime: Planting the Seeds for
Monsieur Verdoux.”
Criterion.com (April 4, 2013). Available at
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2719-chaplin-and-crime-planting-the-seeds-for-monsieur-verdoux Syd Chaplin: A Biography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2010.
