Associate Professor
B.A. English, Boston University, 1969
M.A. English Education, New York University, 1971
Ph.D. English, New York University, 1977
Sharon Friedman’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of literary and dramatic criticism, feminist criticism, theories of adaptation and critical writing across the curriculum. Her publications include “Feminism as Theme in Twentieth-Century American Women’s Drama” in
American Studies , “Revisioning the Woman’s Part in Paula Vogel’s Desdemona” in
New Theatre Quarterly , “Honor or Virtue Unrewarded: Susan Glaspell’s Challenge to Ideologies of Sexual Conduct and the Discourse of Intimacy” in
New England Theatre Journal, “’Sounds Indistinguishable from Sights’: Staging Subjectivity in Katie Mitchell’s Waves” in
Text and Performance, and her most recent article, "The Gendered Terrain in Contemporary Theatre of War by Women" in
Project Muse. Other essays have appeared in
Contemporary Authors Bibliographical Series: American Dramatists ,
TDR ,
Women and Performance ,
Susan Glaspell: Essays on Her Theater and Fiction and
Codifying the National Self: Spectators, Actors, and the American Dramatic Text . She is coauthor of
Writing and Thinking in the Social Sciences , and her most recent publication is an edited volume entitled
Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works (McFarland, 2008). Her courses include Literary Forms and the Craft of Criticism, Text and Performance (cotaught with Professor Julie Malnig), The Art of the Personal Essay and Revisioning the Classics. In 1988, she was the recipient of New York University’s Distinguished Teaching Award.
