Rebecca Kastleman
Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature

My Contact Info

602 Philosophy, Mail Code: 4927, United States

Office Hours Fall 2022

Tuesdays 4:00-5:00pm, Thursdays 2:00-4:00pm, and by appointment



+1 212 854 3215
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Rebecca Kastleman

Research Interests

Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies
20th and 21st Century Modernism and Postmodernism
Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism
Philosophy, Aesthetics, History of Ideas, and Sociology of Knowledge
American and the Americas
Britain
Europe
Postcolonial and Global South
Film, Media, and Visual Studies

Biography

A.B., Harvard University, 2006; A.M., Harvard University, 2014; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2017
Rebecca Kastleman teaches and writes about modern and contemporary drama, theater, and performance. Her scholarship tracks the global trajectories of theater and performance history, focusing particularly on dramatic literature in Great Britain and the United States. Professor Kastleman's current book project,?Profaning Acts: The Drama of Religion on the Modern Stage, explores how British and American dramatists became newly fascinated with religion after the turn of the twentieth century, demonstrating how playwrights' investigations of religious belief drew them into vexed encounters with global performance practices. Her research has been published in venues including?Modern Drama,?Theatre Journal,?American Theatre,?Theatre History Studies, The Year's Work in?Critical and Cultural Theory,?Critical Military Studies, and?Modernism/modernity?Print Plus. Additional research interests include gender and sexuality, diaspora and migration, and the history of philosophy.