Iris Smith Fischer
Associate Professor

Dept. of English
The University of Kansas
3107 Wescoe Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045
Phone: 785- 864-2511
Email

Spring 2007 semester
Office hours:
- TBA
Courses:
- ENGL 327 Studies in 20th-Century Drama: Authors and Authority (62998)
- ENGL 767 Studies in Modern Drama: Modern Amer Drama (69198)
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Areas of research: Modern and contemporary U.S. drama, semiotics, literary and performance theory, avant-garde performance.

Selected Publications: Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance (editor, with William Demastes; Palgrave Macmillan, in press), “Writing, Teaching, Performing America: Papers from the New Literacies Conference” (with William W. Demastes, Journal of Dramatic Theory & Criticism, 2005), "Reconsidering Graduate Education: Pressures, Practices, Prospects" (conference proceedings, The Centennial Review, 1996), American Signatures: Semiotic Inquiry and Method (University of Oklahoma Press, 1991). Work in progress: "Players at Work: The Early Years of Mabou Mines."

Associate Editor, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.