Michael F D'Alessandro
Assistant Professor
Office Location: Duke University, English Dept., Campus Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: +1 919 684 2741
Email Address: michael.dalessandro@duke.edu
Web Page: https://duke.box.com/s/p5yo7lurpj2k14wyt7bynnb1l5rieviq
Teaching (Spring, 2024):
- Housecs 59.42, House course (sp top)
Synopsis
- Perkins 060, M 07:00 PM-08:30 PM
- English 101s.04, The art of reading
Synopsis
- Allen 318, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
- English 590s-2.01, Sp top seminar
Synopsis
- Allen 317, M 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
- Office Hours:
- Spring 2024 Semester:
Tuesdays 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. and by appointment. (303G Allen)
- Education:
- Ph.D., Boston University
M.F.A., Yale University
B.A., Hamilton College
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- D’Alessandro, M. "Dickens and Shakespeare and Longfellow, Oh My!: Staging the Fan Canon at the Nineteenth-Century Authors’ Carnivals." American Literary History 35.2Oxford University Press (OUP),
(May, 2023): 715-743.
[doi] [abs]
- D'Alessandro, M. "At-Home Humbugs: Freaks and Fakes in the Nineteenth-Century Parlor Museum." Theatre Survey 63.1Cambridge University Press (CUP),
(January, 2022): 3-33.
[doi] [abs]
- D'Alessandro, M. Staged Readings Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75. 2022. 300 pages pp. [abs]
- d'Alessandro, M. ""If Actresses Ever Are Themselves": Living Pictures, Dying Women, and British Class Pretensions in Alcott's Behind a Mask." ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 68.4Project MUSE,
(2022): 423-461.
[doi]
- D'Alessandro, M. “Creole Drama (by Juliane Braun) and Provocative Eloquence (by Laura Mielke)”. American Literature 92.3
(September, 2020): 589-591.