Jody McAuliffe, Professor of the Practice and Arts of the Moving Image

Jody McAuliffe
Contact Info:
Office Location:  208B Branson Building
Office Phone:  919-660-3363
Email Address:   send me a message
Web Page:   http://fvd.aas.duke.edu/~mca

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • RUSSIAN 155S.01, SPECIAL TOPICS
    Brody 001, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
  • THEATRST 159S.01, SPECIAL TOPICS IN DIRECTING Synopsis
    Brody 001, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
Teaching (Spring 2010):

  • THEATRST 189S.01, SENIOR COLLOQUIUM Synopsis
    Brody 001, W 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
Education:

MFAYale School of Drama
BS with Highest DistinctionNorthwestern University
Pushkin InstituteMoscow, U.S.S.R.
Specialties:

Directing
Literary & Cultural Criticism
Research Interests: Directing, Literary & Cultural Criticism

Jody McAuliffe (MFA, Yale University) Publications: My Lovely Suicides (2007) Crimes of Art and Terror (with Frank Lentricchia, 2003); Mysterious Actions: New American Drama, Guest Editor, South Atlantic Quarterly; "Reflections on a Director’s Process," Peter Weiss’s The New Trial (2001); Plays, Movies, and Critics (1993). Her adaptation of My Lovely Suicides (Semi-Finalist, Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Center National Playwrights Conference), Manbites Dog Theater Other Voices Series (2007). Fiction: "Grave Love" (South Atlantic Quarterly); "The Imaginary Letters of Heinrich von Kleist to the Poet Holderlin" (Literary Imagination); "Standing on End" (Southwest Review). Former National Endowment for the Arts Directing Fellow at the Mark Taper Forum and member of the Directing Workshop for Women at American Film Institute, she has developed and directed new plays nationally and regionally: including Marlane Meyer’s The Mystery of Attraction, Pacific Playwrights Festival, South Coast Repertory; Neal Bell's "Shadow of Himself," New Play Summit, Denver Center Theater; "The Special Prosecutor," her translation/adaptation of Gogol's "Inspector General"; and her adaptation of Don DeLillo's Mao II. She is a recipient of Duke’s Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award.

Curriculum Vitae
Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. My Lovely Suicides (2007), Ravenna Press .
  2. with F. Lentricchia, Crimes of Art and Terror (2003), University of Chicago Press  [author's comments].
  3. Plays, Movies, and Critics (1993), Duke Press .
  4. with F. Lentricchia, translated into Turkish by Ayrinti Yayinlari, Crimes of Art and Terror (2005) .
  5. Faulkners romanunivers til scenen, Norsk Shakespeare Og Teater-Tidsskrift (2008) .
  6. Boos etterkommere (Descendants of Boo), Vagant Magazine, Norway (2006)  [author's comments].
  7. Lucia Joyce as Cordelia and the Fool, Journal of Modern Literature (2005)  [author's comments].
  8. The Imaginary Letters of Heinrich von Kleist to the Poet Holderlin, Literary Imagination (Winter, 2001) (fiction.) .
  9. Reflections on a Director's Process (2001) (afterword to The New Trial, by Peter Weiss, translated by James Rolleston with Kai Evers.) .
  10. Mysterious Actions: New American Drama, South Atlantic Quarterly (Spring/Summer 2000) (Guest Editor.) .
  11. Standing on End, Southwest Review (1989) (short story.) .