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Thomas A. King Associate Professor Ph.D., Northwestern University Rabb 244 office hours: tking @ brandeis.edu 781-736-2149 • see also: Tom King's web page |
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Research Interests
Early Modern English Drama and Social Performance, Performance Studies, Queer Studies, Gender Studies.
Selected Publications
The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750, vol two: Queer Articulations, University of Wisconsin Press, 2008
The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750, vol. one: The English Phallus, University of Wisconsin Press, 2004
Articles
"The Subject at the End of the Voice." Reprinted in Considering Calamity: Methods for Performance Research. Ed. Linda Ben-Zvi and Tracy C. Davis. Israel: Assaph Books, 2007. 55-95.
"The Subject at the End of the Voice." Assaph: Studies in the Theatre. no. 21: Special Issue: Considering Calamity: Methods for Performance Research, ed. Tracy C. Davis and Linda Ben-Zvi (2007): 55-95.
"How (Not) to Queer Boswell." In _Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800_. Ed. Chris Mounsey and Caroline Gonda. The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2007. 114-58.
"The Castrato's Castration." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 46, no. 3 (Summer 2006): 563-84.
"Gender and Modernity: Male Looks and the Performance of Public Pleasures." Monstrous Dreams of Reason, ed. Choudhury and Rosenthal, 2002
"The Fop, The Canting Queen, and the Deferral of Gender," Presenting Gender, ed. Mounsey, 2001
"M/S, or Making the Scene: An Erotics of Space," Queen: A Journal of Rhetoric and Power, 2000
"Performing 'Akimbo'," The Politics and Poetics of Camp, ed. Morris Meyer, Routledge, 1994
More articles and reviews in The Drama Review; Modern Drama; Strategic Sex, ed D. Travers Scott; Theatre Insight; Theatre Journal; and Theatre Studies.
Current Projects
The Subject at the End of the Voice: An investigation of subjectivity as an aural effect, drawing on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dramatic verse; acting, oratory, and rhetorical manuals; conversational etiquette; the oral performance of letters; and collections of sayings, with a focus on the circle of James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Thomas Sheridan, and Hester Thrale Piozzi, and their encounters with central and peripheral Enlightenment figures.
Selected Courses Taught
The Body as Text: Castiglione to Locke (ENG 144b)
Gender Studies (ENG 201a)
Domains of Seventeenth-Century Performance (ENG 23a)
Queer Readings: Before Stonewall (ENG 28b)
Queer Readings: Beyond Stonewall (ENG 87b)
From Libertinism to Sensibility: Pleasure and the Theatre, 1660-1800 (ENG 64b)
Queer Studies (ENG 151a)
Theater/Theory: Investigating Performance (ENG 151b)
Making Sex, Performing Gender (ENG 181a)
Performing the Early Modern Self (ENG 231a)
Making it Real: The Tactics of Discourse (ENG 280a)
this page updated May 28, 2008