Matthew Wilson Smith
mwsmith@bu.edu

Assistant Professor, Education: B.A., Brown University; M.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University.

Teaching/Research interests: modern drama; theatre history and theory; modernism / postmodernism, relations between theatre and early film; relations between media and genre; relations between mass culture and the avant-garde.

Selected publications: "American Valkyries: Richard Wagner, D.W. Griffith, and the Birth of Classical Cinema" (forthcoming); "Laughing at the Redeemer: Kundry and the Paradox of Parsifal" (forthcoming); "Orson Welles' Shakespeare" (forthcoming); The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace (2007); "Scenography" and "Scene Design" (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).

Other Activities: Performances (as playwright) at The Eugene O'Neill Theater, The Ontological Theater, Henry Street Settlement, and other stages.