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Theatricality of the Closet
Michelle Liu Carriger examines fashion and clothing controversies of the nineteenth century, drawing on performance theory to reveal how the apparently superficial or frivolous deeply affects the creation of identity.
Time in the Ditch
In Time in the Ditch, John McCumber explores the effects of McCarthyism on American philosophy in the 1940s and 1950 and the possibility that the political pressures of the McCarthy era...
Growing Up Chicago
Second to None: Chicago Stories
Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories written by Chicagoland authors that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book asks, What characterizes a Chicago author?
Ideas in Unexpected Places
This transformative collection advances innovative scholarly approaches to Black intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of people who lacked access to more privileged mechanisms of public discourse and power.
Horizon, Sea, Sound
This book imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond the competitive forms of belonging suggested by the nation-state. The book employs the tropes of the horizon, sea, and sound as a critique of nation-state discourses and formations.
The Theater of Narration
This is the first book in English to focus on the Theater of Narration, a genre characterized by narrators who write and perform works that revisit historical events of national importance from local perspectives.
A History of the Chicago Portage
Second to None: Chicago Stories
This fascinating account explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important—and neglected—sites in early US history.
Makeshift Chicago Stages
This book brings together leading historians on the history of theater and performance in Chicago. The essays theorize a regional theater aesthetic that is inherently makeshift and marginal, reflecting the city’s segregation and exposing the transgressive possibilities of performance.
Institutional Theatrics
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, political and economic agendas in the reunified German capital have worked to dismantle the state‑subsidized stage. Institutional Theatrics charts the ways artists have reimagined the theater in response to these crises.
Staging Lives in Latin American Theater
Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives examines twenty‑first‑century documentary theater in Latin America, demonstrating how material objects and archives—photographs, videos, and documents such as witness reports, legal briefs, and letters—come to life onstage.

Theatricality of the Closet
Michelle Liu Carriger examines fashion and clothing controversies of the nineteenth century, drawing on performance theory to reveal how the apparently superficial or frivolous deeply affects the creation of identity.
Time in the Ditch
In Time in the Ditch, John McCumber explores the effects of McCarthyism on American philosophy in the 1940s and 1950 and the possibility that the political pressures of the McCarthy era...
Growing Up Chicago
Second to None: Chicago Stories
Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories written by Chicagoland authors that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book asks, What characterizes a Chicago author?
Ideas in Unexpected Places
This transformative collection advances innovative scholarly approaches to Black intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of people who lacked access to more privileged mechanisms of public discourse and power.
Horizon, Sea, Sound
This book imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond the competitive forms of belonging suggested by the nation-state. The book employs the tropes of the horizon, sea, and sound as a critique of nation-state discourses and formations.
The Theater of Narration
This is the first book in English to focus on the Theater of Narration, a genre characterized by narrators who write and perform works that revisit historical events of national importance from local perspectives.
A History of the Chicago Portage
Second to None: Chicago Stories
This fascinating account explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important—and neglected—sites in early US history.
Makeshift Chicago Stages
This book brings together leading historians on the history of theater and performance in Chicago. The essays theorize a regional theater aesthetic that is inherently makeshift and marginal, reflecting the city’s segregation and exposing the transgressive possibilities of performance.
Institutional Theatrics
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, political and economic agendas in the reunified German capital have worked to dismantle the state‑subsidized stage. Institutional Theatrics charts the ways artists have reimagined the theater in response to these crises.
Staging Lives in Latin American Theater
Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives examines twenty‑first‑century documentary theater in Latin America, demonstrating how material objects and archives—photographs, videos, and documents such as witness reports, legal briefs, and letters—come to life onstage.