Director of Graduate Studies
Office: Keezell
212
Phone: 540-568-6994
Email: rebhorme@jmu.edu
Office Hours:
Courses: Fall 2013
Eng 302: Special Topics in Literature and Language: American Psycho: Madness in
Nineenth-Century America
Eng 413: Advanced Studies in Literature and Ideas: Frontier in Fiction and Film
Specialization:
American Literature, American
Novel, Theater History, Performance Theory,
Transcendentalism,
Melodrama
Education:
Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature,
Columbia University, 2004
M.Phil., English and Comparative Literature,
Columbia University, 2001
School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell
University, Summer 1998
M.A., English and Comparative Literature, University of Virginia, 1998
B.A., English (Honors),
University of Chicago, 1997
Awards:
Visiting Scholar, American Antiquarian Society, 2013-2014
College of Arts and Letters Summer Research Fellowship, James Madison University, 2012
Edna T. Shaeffer Humanist Award, James Madison University, 2012-2013
International Development Grant, Office of International Programs, James Madison
University, 2011-2012
CIT Institute for Online Course Development Grant, James Madison University, 2011
NEH Summer Stipend Finalist, 2008-2009
Faculty Educational Leave, James Madison University, 2008-9
NEH Summer Stipend Finalist, James Madison Unviersity, 2007-2008
Edna T. Shaeffer Humanist Award, College of Arts and Letters, 2007
Stanley J. Kahrl Fellowship in Theatre History, Harvard University, 2007
Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (2003-4)
Bunneur Award (2001)
Bradley Fund Grant (2001)
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (1998-2002)
Publications:
Pioneer Performances: Staging the Frontier, 1829-1893. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
"Minding the Body: Reading Melville's Body Language in Benito Cereno." Studies
in the Novel 41:2 (Summer 2009): 157-177.
"Thomas Dartmouth Rice." In American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia
of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History.
Ed. Gina Misiroglu. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2008.
"What is It?: The Frontier, Melodrama, and Boucicault's Amalgamated Drama." The
Journal of American Drama and Theatre 19:3 (Fall 2007): 5-33.
Review of Martin Puchner, Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the
Avant-Gardes (Princeton UP 2005) in Modern Drama 50:3 (Fall 2007): 465-7.
"Edwin Forrest's Redding Up: Elocution, Drama, and Performing the
Frontier." Comparative Drama 40:4 (Winter 2006-7): 455-81.
"Flaying Dutchman: Masochism, Minstrelsy, and the Gender Politics
in Amiri
Baraka's Dutchman," Callaloo 26:3 (Summer 2003): 796-812.
"'Incest is Best (When It's Kept in the Family)': Staging a Re-conceptualization
of
the Oedipal Family Matrix in Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive," Queen:
A
Journal of Rhetoric and Power 1:1 (2000). |
