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Sharon Friedman

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.    

Books

2019

Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1990's: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

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

Writing and Thinking in the Social Sciences

Sharon Friedman and Stephen Steinberg's Writing and Thinking in the Social Sciences was published by Longman.

Edited Volumes

2008

Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works

Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works, edited by Sharon Friedman, is published by McFarland.

Teaching and Research Interests

modern drama; literary interpretation; feminist criticism; critical writing; writing across the disciplines 

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