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Michael Bennett
Degrees
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
B.A. The George Washington University (The University Honors Program; Phi Beta Kappa)
Books (Monographs)
Edited Books
Michael Bennett
Associate Professor
- Department(s): Literature, Writing, & Film
- Office Location: Laurentide Hall 3270
- Phone: (262) 472-5037
- Email: bennettm@uww.edu
- Website: View my personal website
MICHAEL Y. BENNETT is Associate Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He will be a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, where he will be a Visiting Fellow in 2020. Known for his work on absurd drama; on the philosophy of theatre; and on Oscar Wilde; he is the author or editor of eleven books.
Degrees
M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
B.A. The George Washington University (The University Honors Program; Phi Beta Kappa)
Books (Monographs)
- Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Routledge 2018)
- Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play, Foreword by Marvin Carlson, Afterword by James R. Hamilton (Routledge 2017)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre and Literature of the Absurd (Cambridge University Press 2015) (Hb & Pb)
- Narrating the Past through Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan 2012)
- Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension between Empiricism and Rationalism (Palgrave Macmillan 2012)/(Pb 2016)
- Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd (Palgrave Macmillan 2011)/(Pb 2013)
Edited Books
- Philosophy and Oscar Wilde (Palgrave Macmillan 2017)
- Edward Albee and Absurdism (Brill 2017)
- Oscar Wilde's Society Plays (Palgrave Macmillan 2015)
- Eugene O'Neill's One-Act Plays: New Critical Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan 2012)/(Pb 2014) (co-edited with Benjamin D. Carson)
- Refiguring Oscar Wilde’s Salome (Rodopi 2011)