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Michael F D'Alessandro, Associate Professor of English

Michael F D'Alessandro
Office Location:  Duke University, English Dept., Campus Box 90015, Durham, NC 27708
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Web Page:   https://duke.box.com/s/p5yo7lurpj2k14wyt7bynnb1l5rieviq

Teaching (Spring 2025):

  • ENGLISH 266S.01, AMERICAN CRIME LITERATURE Synopsis
    Allen 318, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
Teaching (Fall 2025):

  • ENGLISH 267S.01, AMERICAN HAUNTINGS Synopsis
    Allen 318, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
Office Hours:

Spring '25 Semester:

Tuesdays 1:30 - 3:30 PM. (303G Allen)
Education:

Ph.D.Boston University2014
M.F.A.Yale University2006
B.A.Hamilton College2002

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. D’Alessandro, M. "Dickens and Shakespeare and Longfellow, Oh My!: Staging the Fan Canon at the Nineteenth-Century Authors’ Carnivals." American Literary History 35:2 (May, 2023): 715-743. [doi]  [abs]
  2. D'Alessandro, M. "At-Home Humbugs: Freaks and Fakes in the Nineteenth-Century Parlor Museum." Theatre Survey 63:1 (January, 2022): 3-33. [doi]  [abs]
  3. D'Alessandro, M. Staged Readings Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75. (2022): 300 pages.  [abs]
  4. 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 68:4 (2022): 423-461. [doi]
  5. D'Alessandro, M, "“Creole Drama (by Juliane Braun) and Provocative Eloquence (by Laura Mielke)”". American Literature 92:3 (September, 2020): 589-591.

 


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