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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 an Associate Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. In addition to being a past Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he is a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, where he was a Visiting Fellow. In addition to being on the Advisory Boards of Comparative Drama and the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, he is the President of The Edward Albee Society; the Editor of the book series, Routledge Studies on Edward Albee and American Theatre; and is the Editor of the journal, Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes. A theatre theorist and critic known for his work on absurd drama, philosophy of theatre, Edward Albee, and Oscar Wilde, he is the author or editor of fifteen books.
Degrees
M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
B.A. The George Washington University (The University Honors Program; Phi Beta Kappa)
Books (Monographs)
- Between the Lines: A Philosophy of Theatre (Oxford University Press 2024)
- The Problems of Viewing Performance: Epistemology and Other Minds (Routledge 2021/Pb 2023)
- 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/Pb 2020)
- 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, Analytic Aesthetics, and Theater (Routledge, forthcoming 2025)
- The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature (Routledge 2024)
- Philosophy and Oscar Wilde (Palgrave Macmillan 2017)
- Edward Albee and Absurdism (Brill 2017)
- Oscar Wilde's Society Plays (Palgrave Macmillan 2015/Pb 2018)
- 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)