Theatre Department Faculty
Michael Lueger
Lecturer in Theatre
Michael Lueger
Contact
Rubenstein Hall, Room 4F
Telephone: 617-5520124
Email: michael.lueger@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., College of the Holy Cross
- M.A. & Ph.D., Tufts University
Courses
Intro to Theatre
Research Interests
American theatre, 19th-century celebrity scandals, women playwrights on Broadway at the turn of the 20th century
Department
Selected Publications
“Dance and the Plague: Artaud and Epidemic Choreomania" in the Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater
“Women in Three Film Adaptations of O’Neill,” Eugene O’Neill Review
“Baroque and Classical in Jesuit Theatre,” Journal of Theatre and Religion
“How Canons Are Formed,” Contingent Magazine
“The Penny Paper Sex Scandal,” The Awl
“East, West, and In-Between,” American Theatre
“Stage Death: From Offstage to In Your Face,” JSTOR Daily
“Overwhelmed Social Workers, Troubled Families: ‘Luna Gale’ Is All Too Familiar to Massachusetts,” WBUR The Artery
“The Immortal Life of Joice Heth: How an Elderly Slave Launched P.T. Barnum’s Career,” JSTOR Daily
“What’s in a Label? The Charleston Massacre and the Evolving Definition of Terrorism,” WBUR Cognoscenti