Founding Gallatin Professor Emerita
sf2@nyu.edu
B.A., English, Boston University, 1969
M.A., English Education, New York University, 1971
Ph.D., English, New York University, 1977
B.A., Theatre & Dance, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 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 an edited volume entitled Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works (McFarland, 2008) and numerous essays including "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 Presentation, and "The Gendered Terrain in Contemporary Theatre of War by Women" in Theatre Journal. Other essays of hers 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. Along with Stephen Steinberg, she co-authored Writing and Thinking in the Social Sciences (Longman, 1989). Her courses include "Revisioning the Classics," Literary Forms and the Craft of Criticism," "The Art of the Personal Essay," "Fictionalizing History/Historicizing Fiction," and "Text and Performance," which she co-teaches with Professor Julie Malnig. She was the recipient of 1988 NYU Distinguished Teaching Award, which recognizes that one of NYU's primary institutional priorities, along with research, is exceptional teaching inside and outside of the classroom setting.
2019
Cheryl Black and Sharon Friedman's Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1990's: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations, was published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.
1989
Sharon Friedman and Stephen Steinberg's Writing and Thinking in the Social Sciences was published by Longman.
2008
Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works, edited by Sharon Friedman, is published by McFarland.
modern drama; literary interpretation; feminist criticism; critical writing; writing across the disciplines
2021 Spring
2020 Spring
2020 Fall
Literary Forms and the Craft of Criticism
2019 Spring
2019 Fall
Literary Forms and the Craft of Criticism
2018 Spring
2018 Fall