ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

BOOK CHAPTERS                                  

"I'm Not Special?": Timmy, Jimmy, and the Double-Move of Disability Parody in South Park.” (Book Chapter). With Hioni Karamanos. Oh My God! They Deconstructed South Park! Those Bastards! Marc Leverette and Brian Cogan eds. (New York: Lexington Books, forthcoming 2012). 10,100 wds.

“Wild and Untamed Thing: The Exotic, Erotic, and Neurotic Rocky Horror Performance Cult.” (Book Chapter) Rocky Horror and Popular Culture, Jeffrey Weinstock ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 7,000 words.

ARTICLES
              
“That Not-OK Feeling: Circus Contraption’s THE GRAND AMERICAN TRAVELING DIME MUSEUM at the Theatre for the New City.” TheatreForum International Theatre Journal n. 31 (Summer/Fall 2007), pp.58-67. 4,100 words.

 “’With Your Shield, Or On It’; Disability Representation in 300.” Disability Studies Quarterly, 27:3 (Summer 2007), 1,500 words.

“Anti-Semitism, Surrogacy, and the Invocation of Mohammed in the Play of the Sacrament.” Comparative Drama 41:1 (Spring 2007), pp. 25-55. 10,264 words.

“Freakery: Aberrant Performances, Prodigious Narrative.” Disability Studies Quarterly, 25:4 (Fall 2005), 3,500 words.

“Staging Stigma: A Freak Studies Manifesto.” Disability Studies Quarterly, 25:3 (Summer 2005), 4,500 words.

 “Midget Cities: Utopia, Utopianism, and the Vor-schein of the ‘Freak’ Show.” With Richard P. Howells. Disability Studies Quarterly, 25:3 (Summer 2005), 6,000 words.

 “Jumpin’ Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton on Stage at the American Museum.”Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 31:2 (Winter 2004), pp. 16-27. Manchester, UK. 5,000 words.

 “Mutatis Mutandis: X-2 and the Discourse of Disability.” Disability Studies Quarterly,
24:1 (Winter 2004). 1,500 words.

“Le Freak, C’est Chic: the 21st Century Freak Show, Pornography of Disability or Theatre of Transgression?” Modern Drama, 46:2 (Summer 2003), pp. 285-304. 9,000 words.

 “On the Boards in Brobdignag: Performing Tom Thumb.” New England Theatre Journal, v. 12 (Oct. 2001), pp. 79-104. 7,000 wds.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES                            
  • “Freakery.” Encylopedia of American Disability History. Susan Burch, ed. (New York: Facts on File, 2009); 750 wds.
  • “Christopher Reeve.” Encylopedia of American Disability History. Susan Burch, ed. (New York: Facts on File, 2009); 1,244 wds.
  • “Monsters” Encylopedia of American Disability History. Susan Burch, ed. (New York: Facts on File, 2009); 1,412 wds.
  • “William S. Gilbert.” Nineteenth Century British Dramatists volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Angela Courtney, ed. (Detroit: Gale, 2009) 10,000 words.
  • “James Sheridan Knowles.” Nineteenth Century British Dramatists volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Angela Courtney, ed. (Detroit: Gale, 2009). 10,000 words.
  • “Exhibition.” Encyclopedia of Disability. David Mitchell, ed. (Chicago: Sage, 2006); 1,400 wds.
  • “Freak Show.” Encyclopedia of Disability. David Mitchell, ed. (Chicago: Sage, 2006)  1,400 wds.
  • “Deformity.” Encyclopedia of Disability. David Mitchell, ed. (Chicago: Sage, 2006), 500 wds.
  •  “The Front Page.” Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Gabrielle Cody and Evert Sprinchorn, eds. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007) 500 words.
  • “Djuna Barnes.” Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Gabrielle Cody and Evert Sprinchorn, eds. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007) 500 words.
  • “The Martyrdom of Husayn.” Great Events in History: The Middle Ages and 477-1453. Brian A. Pavlac, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2005) 1,500 words.
  • “Islamic World and Drama.” Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition, Carl Rollyson, ed. (Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2003) 2,300 words.
  • “Pavel Kohout.” Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition, Carl Rollyson, ed. (Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2003) 4,000 words.
  • “Latin American Drama.” Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition, Carl Rollyson, ed. (Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2003) 2,000 words.