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Dr Mary Brewer
Tel: +44 01509 222955
Role: Senior Lecturer
Email: M.F.Brewer@lboro.ac.uk
Room NN.1.27 Martin Hall Building, East Park
Publications
Research Interests
My research is located in English and American Studies. I have a particular interest in drama, both canonical British and American playwrights as well as sub-cultural theatre: feminist, African-American, black British, and lesbian/gay plays. My publications reflect further interests in the adaptation of fiction and drama to film and literature and religion. Recent publications include Harold Pinter’s The Dumbwaiter (Rodopi 2009) and Battling the Legions of the Ungodly: Alternative American Drama and the Vietnam War in Comparative American Studies. Current research projects include articles on Sidney Lumet’s Long Day’s Journey into Night for the Cambridge Companion to Modern American Drama on Screen, race and religion in Cormac McCarthy’s Sunset Limited and The Stonemason, and I am editing a collection of essays, Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama, with Lynette Goddard and Deirdre Osborne for Palgrave Macmillan.
Teaching
I teach modules on the Drama and English programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Undergraduate Teaching
I teach modules on Women’s Drama, Myths of America: Ideology and American Drama, Women on American Television, and Modern and Contemporary British Drama, as well as supervising dissertations on topics related to my research.
Postgraduate Teaching
I contribute to 'The American Novel Now', part of the MA English. I supervise MA and PhD dissertations on a variety of subjects in modern and contemporary drama and literature.