Research Interests for John M. Clum

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.

Keywords:

Gender, gaystudies, musical theater, American and British drama

Current projects:

Marriage in modern and contemporary drama

Recent Publications

1. Clum, JM, Terrence McNally and Fifty Years of American Gay Drama (June, 2016), pp. 238 pages, Cambria Press, ISBN 9781604979220
2. John M. Clum (Editor), GAY DRAMA NOW: AN ANTHOLOGY (2013), Cambria Press, Amherst, NY, ISBN 978-1-60497-842-1
3. J.M. Clum:, THE DRAMA OF MARRIAGE: GAY PLAYWRIGHTS/STRAIGHT UNIONS IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN DRAMA SINCE OSCAR WILDE (2012), Palgrave Macmillan, New York and London
4. J.M. Clum, FINISHING THE HAT by Stephen Sondheim, Contemporary Theatre Review (2011) (In press.)
5. J.M. Clum, Oscar Andrew Hammerstein, THE HAMMERSTEINS, Studies in Musical Theatre (2011) (In press.)