Alan Ackerman

Alan Ackerman is a Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His primary areas of teaching are American Literature and Modern Drama. He is the author Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America (Yale University Press, 2011), Seeing Things, from Shakespeare to Pixar (University of Toronto Press, 2011), and The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999). He is also the editor of numerous books in the field of modern drama and theatre. From 2005 to 2015, he served as Editor of the journal Modern Drama. His current research is in the field of environmental humanities and focuses on literary and cultural aspects of the rise of fossil fuels as a major energy source in the nineteenth century. Professor Ackerman holds a joint-appointment in the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies.

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