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Bryan Reynolds

Professor, Drama
Claire Trevor School of the Arts

UCI Chancellor's Fellow, 2005-2008


PH.D., Harvard University

Phone: (949) 824-4806
Email: breynold@uci.edu

University of California
242 DRA
Mail Code: 2775
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests
Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, Critical Theory, Transversal Poetics, Feminist Theory, Performance Theory, Cultural Studies
   
URLs drama.arts.uci.edu/faculty/reynolds.html
   
www.bryanreynolds.com/
   
transversaltheater.com/
   
Research
Abstract
Reynolds’ work spans several disciplines, including critical theory, history, performance studies, social semiotics, philosophy, cognitive science, and dramatic literature, especially of the English Renaissance. It focuses on the experience, articulation, and performance of consciousness and sociocultural differences, particularly the ideologies and passions that define them, both on and off the stage.

His publications include: Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Fugitive Explorations (2006), Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future (2003), Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England (2002), co-edited with William West, Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage (2005), and co-edited with Donald Hedrick, Shakespeare Without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital (2000).

His next book, Transversal Subjects: From Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida, is forthcoming December 2008.

Reynolds is also a screenwriter, playwright, director of theater, and cofounder of the Transversal Theater Company, whose productions of Reynolds’ plays Unbuckled, Woof, Daddy, Railroad, and Blue Shade toured Romania (June 2004), Poland (April 2005), Romania (May/June 2006), Czech Republic and Poland (May/June 2007), and Romania (November 2007) in addition to performances in California and New York. The company’s production of his new play, Lumping in Fargo, directed by Chris Marshall, will tour to several Eastern European countries in 2007.
   
Publications Transversal Subjects: From Montaigne to Deleuze after Derrida (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Fugitive Explorations (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage, Co-Editor, with William West (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Performing Transversally: Reimagining Shakespeare and the Critical Future (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

Becoming Criminal: Transversal Performance and Cultural Dissidence in Early Modern England (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).

Shakespeare Without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital, Co-Editor, with Donald Hedrick (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).
   
Link to this profile http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4735
   
Last updated 06/09/2009