Loren Kruger
Loren Kruger is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and African Studies and is also affiliated with the Department of Germanic Studies and the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies. Her research and teaching focus on theatre performance and theory in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, South African literature and visual culture, and on cultural theory, mostly marxist and postcolonial. She is contributing editor for Theatre Research International, Modern Drama and Scrutiny2
Comparatively inclined courses include:
- Graduate: Catharsis and other aesthetic responses; Drama, Theatre, Image, Performance; Marxism and Modern Culture; Translating Theory; Realism, Socialism, Modernism: a political history of cultural theory and practice; Brecht in Context
- Undergraduate: Brecht and Beyond. Criticism and Ideology; Cinema in Africa; Modern Drama
Selected publications:
- A book project entitled Upstart Cities: Literature, Performance and Built Environments in Berlin, Chicago, and Johannesburg (Work in Progress)
- Post-Imperial Brecht (Cambridge, 2004) Winner of the MLA's Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Study 2005.
- The Drama of South Africa: Plays, Pageants and Publics since 1910 (Routledge, 1999)
The National Stage: Theatre and Cultural Legitimation in England, France, and America. (U of Chicago P, 1992) - Translator from German: The Institutions of Art by Christa Bürger & Peter Bürger (Nebraska UP 1992)
- Translator from French: Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture by Patrice Pavis (Routledge 1991)
- "The National Stage and the Naturalized House" in National Theatre in a Changing Europe ed S.E. Wilmer (Palgrave Macmillan 2007)
- " 'White Cities,' 'Diamond Zulus' and the 'African Contribution to Human Advancement': African Modernities at the World's Fairs," TDR-Journal of Performance Studies. 51; 3 (2007): 19-45
- "Positive Heroes and Abject Bodies in Heiner Müller's Production Plays," New German Critique (special issue on Heiner Müller) 98 (2006): 205-33.
- "Filming the Edgy City: Cinematic Narrative and Urban Form in Post-apartheid Johannesburg" Research in African Literatures 37:2 (2006): 141-63.
- " 'Black Atlantics,' 'White Indians,' and 'Jews': Locations, Locutions, and Syncretic Identities in the Fiction of Achmat Dangor and others," South Atlantic Quarterly 100: 1 (2001 special issue: Atlantic Geneologies): 111-43.
- (with Patricia Watson Shariff) " 'Shoo-this book makes me to think!': Education, Entertainment, and 'Life-Skills Comics' in South Africa," Poetics Today 22: 2 (2001): 475-513. (South Africa in the Global Imaginary: CELJ prize for best special issue in 2001)
- "Making Sense of Sensation: Enlightenment, Embodiment, and the End(s) of Modern Drama." Modern Drama 43: 4 (2000: special issue: Defining the Field): 543-63.
- "Goat Island: The Sea & Poison," Frakcija (Zagreb, Croatia) 15 (1999): 70-75.
Arthur Molepo in Junction Avenue Theatre Company's Love, Crime and Johannesburg (1999) |
Cover photograph: Zombie |