Office: Keezell 212
Phone: 540-568-6994
Email: rebhorme@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2009 - Tu 1:45-4:45 and Th 1:45-3:45

Courses: Fall 2009
GENG 247Survey of American Literature I, TT 9:30-10:45
ENG 299 Writing About Literature, TT 12:30-1:45
ENG 666 Theater, Theory and Performance, TT 3:30-4:45

Specialties: American Literature, American Novel, Theater History, Performance Theory, Transcendentalism, Melodrama

Education: Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2004; M.Phil. in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2001; School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, Summer 1998; M.A. in English and Comparative Literature; M.A. in English, University of Virginia, 1998; B.A. (honors) in English, University of Chicago, 1997

Awards:
* 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 (under contract at Oxford University Press)

"Minding the Body: Reading Melville's Body Language in Benito Cereno" in Studies in the Novel (forthcoming)

"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).

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