Office: Keezell 210
Phone: 540-568-3759
Email: rebhorme@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2008: MWF 11:00-12:00 and by appointment.

Courses:
Spring
GENG 247 - Survey of American Literature I
ENG 299 - Writing About Literature
ENG 343 -

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:
* 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:
""What is It?: The Frontier, Melodrama, and Boucicault's Amalgamated Drama" in Journal of American Drama and Theatre (forthcoming)"

"Thomas Dixon Rice," in The Dictionary of Counterculture (Forthcoming 2007).

"Edwin Forrest's Redding Up: Elocution, Theater, and the Performance of the Frontier," Comparative Drama (2007).

Review of Martin Puchner's Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes (Princeton UP 2005) in Modern Drama (forthcoming 2007).

"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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