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Matthew Wilson Smith
mwsmith@bu.edu
Associate Professor.  B.A., Brown University; M.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

Teaching and Research Interests: modern drama; theatre history and theory; modernism / postmodernism; relations between theatre and film.
Selected Publications: “American Valkyries: Richard Wagner, D.W. Griffith, and the Birth of Classical Cinema” (2008); “Orson Welles’ Shakespeare” (2008); Co-editor, Modern Drama Fiftieth Anniversary Issue (2007); “Laughing at the Redeemer: Kundry and the Paradox of Parsifal” (2007); The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace (Routledge, 2007); “Scenography” and “Scenery,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance (2003); “Bayreuth, Disneyland, and the Return to Nature” (2002); “The Wild Duck: A Play of Play” (2002); “Schlemmer, Moholy-Nagy, and the Search for the Absolute Stage” (2002); “Joseph Urban and the Birth of American Film Design” (2000); “Angels in America: A Progressive Apocalypse” (1999).
Works in Progress: Writing a book on nineteenth-century theatre; editing the Norton Critical Edition of Georg Büchner; co-editing a book on opera and modernism.
Selected Professional Activities: editorial board member of Theatre Survey and Modern Drama.
Other Activities: performances (as playwright) at The Eugene O'Neill Theater, The Ontological Theater, Henry Street Settlement, and other stages.