This essay explores how the early American stage functioned as an incubator for ideas about
national identity, artistic expression, and masculinity. Reading four plays from the early years of
the Republic – Royall Tyler’s The Contrast, William Dunlap’s Andre´, John Augustus Stone’s Metamora,
and Robert Montgomery Bird’s The Gladiator,…[Read more]

A conversation with Ellen Samuels about disability studies and its relationship to pedagogy.

This essay explores how Jane Addams used her Labor Museum to attempt to connect immigrant adolescents with their parents.

Conversation with Heather Love about queerness and affect.

This article analyzes the connections between Lorde’s representations of blindness in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, and its connection to lesbian sexuality.