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Renate Voris
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Degrees
Ph.D. Ohio State
Renate
Voris, Professor (Ph.D. Ohio State University); Professor Voris's special
area of research and teaching is in the theory, history, and criticism
of the theatrical arts, including film. She has published books and
edited volumes on Bertolt Brecht, Peter Handke, Adolf Muschg, and
Heiner Mueller. Other major research and teaching interests are:
aesthetics and literary theory, American and continental gender
theories (history, theory, criticism), as well as 19th and 20th century
comparative literature and cultural studies. She
has developed courses in the theory of literature (graduate level), in
the semiology of cinema and theatre, and in the language and history of
German film. Ms. Voris is a former department chair. In 1997, she was voted "Best Professor" by the University's undergraduates.
