Personal profile
About
Christopher Wixson teaches advanced courses in Early Modern drama and Modernism, script analysis and dramaturgy, and general education courses in writing and literature. He has staged plays by Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, Anton Chekhov, Christopher Durang, Sarah Kane, Harold Pinter, William Shakespeare, and John Webster. His writing has appeared (in most cases, more than once) in Modern Drama, Studies in English Literature, the Journal of Modern Literature, Comparative Drama, ELT, Notes on Contemporary Literature, Pamphlet, The Harold Pinter Review, SHAW, American Drama, and The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. He is the author of the forthcoming Bernard Shaw and Advertising: Prophet Motives (Palgrave MacMillan) and, in 2017, became General Editor of SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies. An affiliate faculty member of the department of Theatre Arts, Dr. Wixson was the dramaturg for recent productions of Gidion's Knot, Romeo + Juliet, Dogfight, Seminar, Next to Normal, and Dancing at Lughnasa.
Contact Information
Office: - Coleman Hall 3771 / Doudna Fine Arts Center 2423
Email: [email protected]
Spring 2018 Office Hours: TR 8:30-10:45 / By Appointment
Education/Academic qualification
English, Ph.D., Indiana University - Bloomington
… → 2000
English, M.A., Indiana University - Bloomington
… → 1995
B.A., Hamilton College
… → 1993
Research Interests
- Modern and Contemporary British Literature
- Modern and Contemporary American Literature
- Drama
- Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Disciplines
- English Language and Literature
- Modern Literature
- Theater and Performance Studies
- Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory
- Playwriting
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Seeing Candida
Wixson, C., 2024, Bernard Shaw's Candida (House Programme).Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
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The Rule and the Exception Katharine Cornell and PeggyWood Reviving Candida
Wixson, C., 2024, In: SHAW. 44, 1, p. 103-121 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Bearding Shaw: Peggy Wood, Reminiscence, and the Réclame of an Actress
Wixson, C., 2023, In: The Shavian. 15, 4, p. 26-31Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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’Blood in his Cheeks’: Bernard Shaw and Stacy Aumonier’s “A Short Story of Real People
Wixson, C., 2023, In: The Shavian. 15, 4, p. 6-10Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
Wixson, C., Jan 1 2020, In: How to Teach a Play: Essential Exercises for Popular Plays, 2020, ISBN 978-1-350-01752-8, págs. 189-191.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Woyzeck by Georg Büchner
Wixson, C., Jan 1 2020, In: How to Teach a Play: Essential Exercises for Popular Plays, 2020, ISBN 978-1-350-01752-8, págs. 114-116.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Introduction: “Press as Corrected, G.B.S.”
Wixson, C., Jan 1 2018, In: Default journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Press/Media
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G. K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw: An Ambivalent Literary Relationship
12/5/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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