Rebecca Kastleman

Rebecca Kastleman

Research Interests

Biography

A.B., Harvard University, 2006; A.M., Harvard University, 2014; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2017

Rebecca Kastleman teaches and writes about modern and contemporary drama, theater, and performance. Her scholarship tracks the global trajectories of theater and performance history, focusing particularly on dramatic literature in Great Britain and the United States. Professor Kastleman's current book project, Profaning Acts: The Drama of Religion on the Modern Stage, explores how British and American dramatists became newly fascinated with religion after the turn of the twentieth century, demonstrating how playwrights' investigations of religious belief drew them into vexed encounters with global performance practices. Her research has been published in venues including Modern DramaTheatre JournalAmerican TheatreTheatre History Studies, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryCritical Military Studies, and Modernism/modernity Print Plus. Additional research interests include gender and sexuality, diaspora and migration, and the history of philosophy.