Bakhtin’s Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning offers a bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin’s groundbreaking philosophy and an answer to how we can sustain an ethical relation to other people when we only ever have access to a narrow image of them.
Theatrical Consciousness: The Actor’s Mind in Russian Modernism investigates late Russian and early Soviet modernism’s reinvention of the actor, showing how new theories of acting reimagined the nature of human consciousness and perception.
Surveys a diverse array of Black performance and visual texts that trouble dominant conceptualizations and normative configurations of time in relation to race in the twenty-first century
Flamboyant Fictions: The Failed Art of Passing posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving expressions of male homosexuality from the advent of literary and filmic modernism to the present day.
Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein’s Parlor Plays is a multimedia critical audio collection and performance study that returns us to the music and sound of Gertrude Stein’s theater by way of the modernist medium of radio.
The first English-language translation of the 1968 Théâtre de l’Aquarium activist play about two students from different backgrounds as they prepare for an exam, The Inheritor speaks forcefully as ever on education access and inequality.
The Mee-Ow Show at 50 presents the history of Northwestern’s Mee-Ow Show, now the longest-running original student sketch comedy and improv show in the country, and its considerable impact on contemporary comedy.
Taking Václav Havel’s concept of “living within the truth” as a throughline, Marguerite La Caze’s reading of international cinema reveals how ordinary people can enact their own philosophies of defiance in the face of authoritarianism and totalitarianism.
The Theatricalists: Making Politics Appear shows how theatrical conditions are interconnected with political struggles: who is seen and heard, how labor is valued, and what counts as “political” in the first place.
A panoramic study of a pathbreaking artist’s work, describing not only his methods and best-known productions but also the cultural conditions of his visionary enterprise.
