Theater Studies

Sean Metzger, Assistant Professor of English and Theater Studies

Research Interests:: Sean Metzger is currently the Fulbright Visiting Chair in North American Society and Culture at Concordia University in Montreal. At Duke, Metzger teaches broadly in (and out of) the Western dramatic canon as well as late 19th-21st century American, Francophone and “Sinophone” literature and cinema. He is working on a monograph entitled Looks Chinese: Fashioning Asian/American Spectatorship and has co-edited three volumes: Embodying Asian/American Sexualities (Lexington Books, 2009); Time Signatures: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures (under review); and Race, Space, Place: the Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World (under review). He has been adjunct faculty at Antioch University, Loyola Marymount University and the USC School of Theatre. He also spent three years working in social services at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center and as an independent consultant to school districts and other non-profit institutions. A closeted actor and director, Metzger occasionally creeps on or behind stage.

Education:

PhD	University of California at Davis	2005
MA	University of Southern California	1998
BA	University of Colorado at Boulder	1995

Recent Publications (More Publications)

S. Metzger, Ripples in the Seascape: The Cuba Commission Report and the Idea of Freedom, Afro-Hispanic Review, vol. 27 no. 1 (Spring, 2008), pp. 105-121 .
S. Metzger, Yuko Kurahashi et al, Performance Review of The First National Asian American Theater Festival, Theatre Journal, vol. 60 no. 2 (May 2008), pp. 283-285 .
S. Metzger, Performance Review of Yohen, Theatre Journal, vol. 51 no. 4 (Dec 1999), pp. 68-70 .
S. Metzger, "The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity; Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism: Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement; Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts". American Literature 79:4 (December, 2007).
S. Metzger, "Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture and Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War". American Literature 79:1 (March, 2007): 201-203.