People
Faculty
J. Kerry Powell
Titles
- Professor of English
- Interim Department Chair
Education
- Ph.D., English, University of Kentucky, 1974
- M.A., Mass Communication, University of Kentucky
- B.A., English, University of Kentucky
Teaching Interests
- Victorian literature
- Modern drama
- Performance studies
- Gender studies
Research Interests
- Oscar Wilde
- Victorian theatre
- Gender and performance studies
Selected Publications
- Cambridge Companion To Victorian and Edwardian Theatre; Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Oscar Wilde and the Theatre of the 1890s, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- Women and Victorian Theatre, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- “Gendering Victorian Theatre,” in Cambridge History of British Theatre, vol. 2: 1660-1895, ed. Jospeh Donohue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 352-368.
- “Wilde Man: Masculinity, Feminism, and A Woman of No Importance,” in Wilde Writings, ed. Joseph Bristow. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003, pp. 127-146.
- “Reimagining theTheatre: Women Playwrights of the Victorian and Edwardian Period,” with Susan Carlson, in Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre, ed. Kerry Powell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 237-256.
- “New Women, New Plays, and Shaw in the 1890s,” in Cambridge Companion to Bernard Shaw, ed. Christopher Innes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 76-102.
- “A Verdict of Death: Oscar Wilde and the Actress,” in Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde, ed. Peter Raby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 181-194.
- “Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Robins, and ‘The Theatre of the Future,’” in a special issue on Oscar Wilde, edited by Joel Kaplan, Modern Drama, Spring 1994, pp. 220-237.
- “Elizabeth Robins’s Unpublished Memoir of Oscar Wilde,” edited with a commentary, Nineteenth Century Theatre, Winter 1993, pp. 101-113.
Work in Progress
Kerry Powell is working on a book project on Oscar Wilde and Victorian performance.