John M. Clum, Professor of Theater Studies and English
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- Research Interests: 20th Century, British & American Drama & Film, Gender Studies, and Gay Studies
Current projects: Marriage in modern and contemporary drama
John Clum (Ph.D., Princeton) is the author of a number of books including Still Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama (2001), Something for the Boys: Musical Theater and Gay Culture (2000), and "He’s All Man": Learning Masculinity, Gayness, and Love from American Movies (2002), and essays on Tennessee Williams, Sam Shepard, and Larry Kramer. He has also edited two major anthologies of contemporary drama. Professor Clum’s own plays have been produced in theaters around America and seven of his plays have been published. He has also directed over sixty professional and university theatrical and operatic productions. He has twice won Duke’s Distinguished Teaching Award.
- Education:
PhD Princeton University 1967
- Specialties:
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Dramatic Literature
Film
Playwriting
Theater History
Producing Credits:
- Dancing in the Mirror, Duke New Plays Festival, April 1999
Also at AIDS Quilt Series, produced by Campo Santo Theater, San Francisco
Other Production Credits:
- Other Production Credits, , 2007/11/18
PERICLES by William Shakespeare. Duke Theater Studies Mainstage production. November-December, 2007
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Scott McMillin, "The Musical as Drama". Modern Drama L:2 (Summer, 2007): 297-8.
- J.M. Clum, Queering Marriage (2007) [author's comments].
- J.M. Clum, "Period of Adjustment": Marriage in Tennessee Williams and Christopher Durang, in Tennessee Williams's Legacy, edited by Philip C. Kolin (in press), McFarland .
- James Fisher, ed., "Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of His Plays". Text and Presentation 2006 :3 (2006): 223-5.
- J.M. Clum, Slow Dancing with Johnny Mathis: Hearing and Queering the 50s (2005) [author's comments].