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English Department
Stony Brook University
Humanities Bldg.
Stony Brook, NY
11794-5350
Phone: 631.632.7400
Carol Rosen
CAROL ROSEN is Professor of English, specializing in comparative modern drama and Tudor and Stuart drama. She was previously Director of the Graduate Programs in Theatre Arts and Dramaturgy at Stony Brook. She earned the Ph.D. with distinction at Columbia University, where she held  Woodrow Wilson, Danforth Foundation and President's Fellowships. She has also taught at Princeton, where she was awarded an NEH Fellowship. She is currently working on a study of modern responses to tragedy.
Plays of Impasse

Carol Rosen

Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University; Dramatic theory and criticism; dramaturgy; comparative modern drama; Tudor and Stuart drama.

1096 Humanities
carol.rosen@stonybrook.edu

Courses

   Fall 2009
  • Drama in English (EGL 362) 
  • Problems in Convention and Genre (EGL 603) 

Selected Publications

Books:

  • Sam Shepard: A ‘Poetic Rodeo’. London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
  • Plays of Impasse. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Chapters in Books:
  • "August Wilson: Bard of the Blues," in Conversations with August Wilson, editors, Jackson R. Bryer and Mary C. Hartig (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006), pp. 188-203.
  • "Sam Shepard, Feminist Playwright: The Destination of A Lie of the Mind," in Sam Shepard: Between the Margin and the Center. Gordon and Breach-Harwood Publishers, 1997.
  • “The Ghostlights of Our Theaters: The Fate of Contemporary American Dramaturgs"; and The Literary Manager as 'Resident Highbrow': Dramaturgy at the Mark Taper Forum", two chapters in What is Dramaturgy? Ed. Bert Cardullo. Peter Lang Publishers, 1995.
  • "The Language of Cruelty in Ford's T'is Pity She's A Whore." In Drama in the Renaissance: Comparative and Critical Essays. Ed. Davidson, Gianakaris, and Stroupe. New York: AMS Press, 1986.
Articles:
  • "Neil Simon On the Revival of his The Goodbye Girl in London's West End." Applause Magazine, May 1997.
  • "Jessica Lange: On A Streetcar to the West End." Applause Magazine, January 1997.
  • "Writers and their Work: An Interview with Edward Albee." The Dramatists Guild Quarterly, Autumn 1996.
  • "Signature Theater Company Presents Sam Shepard." TheaterWeek, September 1996.
  • "Sharp Corners: Gary Sinise's Long Ride with Sam Shepard, (Rediscovering Buried Child for Broadway)." The Village Voice, May 1996.
  • “Lucky Lapine: Luck, Pluck, and Virtue, James Lapine’s American Dream.” The Village Voice, April 1995.
  • "Take-Out Goethe: A Theoretical Approach to Richard Schechner's Post-Modern Production of Faust/Gastronome." Praxis: Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1994.
  • “Genet’s Structure of Illusions in The Balcony.” Modern Drama, December 1992.
  • “’Silent Tongues’: Sam Shepard’s Explorations of Emotional Territory, a Rare Interview with the Playwright.” The Village Voice, August 1992.
  • SIRS (Social Issues Resources Series) Renaissance Electronic Database includes a variety of reprints of articles (CD ROM):
  • "Emotional Territory: An Interview with Sam Shepard"
  • "Test of Complicity: An Interview with Jon Robin Baitz"
  • "Lena Horne-- A 'Lovesome Thing'"
  • "Make It Strange: An Interview with Craig Lucas"
  • "Playwright, Lost: Harry Kondoleon"
  • "Playing Anxiety: Ed Harris in Shepard's Sympatico"
  • "An Unconventional Life: Wendy Wasserstein"
  • "August Wilson: Bard of the Blues"
  • "Following a Formless Hunch-- The Method of Peter Brook"
  • "Terrence McNally Reflects on Love! Valour! Compassion!"
  • "Flying Lessons: Uta Hagen's Life in the Theater"
  • "A Dangerous World: An Interview with John Patrick Shanley
  • "Obscenity: An American Perspective"
Works in progress:
  • Performing Tragedy: The Actor, The Audience, and Theatrical Ephemera