* "Playing at Lives"--while also the title of the diss/book, it is the title of the biography article I submitted this past winter to Modern Drama. I just got the word back from my earlier "revise and re-submit." They want more changes. High Priority.

* "The Hegemony of 'We'"--a conference paper submission on the dangers of the communal voice when it conceals the influence of a single author's voice. Prominent even in counter-hegemonic discourse. Primary example: The Vagina Monologues. A portion of the diss to be re-written only if accepted by this year's Narrative Conference.

* "Staging Psychic Excess"--maps out parodic narrative as a template for playwrights working to transgress gender standard. Finds affinities between Butler, Brecht, and parodic narrative. presented in shorter form at Narrative Conference two years ago, under submission to Women and Performance. Waiting.

*"Towards a Parodic Spectator"--suggests that political parodic plays do more than simply critique their source text, but actually teacha parodic stance that can be used by resistant spectators to apply to other canonical plays. Needs to be printed out and sent to Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.

* "Grading Standards for Training Teachers of Writing." with Nora Bellows--catchy title on this one, eh? suggests that grading standards and small group learning models can be highly effective methods of training teachers of many disciplines to grade and ultimately comment on writing. adapted from interactive presentation at Lilly-East conference. In outline stage.

* "Misapprehended Learning Goals and Academic Dishonesty" also with Nora--because the GW job requires research on both my primary field and teaching, I am working on a study that looks at how unstated and misunderstood learning objectives are a root cause (alongside the well-known ethical issues) of academic integrity violations. This one's actual going to require studies, surveys and focus groups, so it'll take a while to come together.

* “Can a Straight Feminist Live Happily Ever After? Heterosexual Romance and the Problems of Representation on Stage and Screen.” A version of a conference paper for the WV film colloq. I want to either rework it for an MLA panel, or, perhaps more fruitfully, work it up as a journal article. Need to brush up on my film lingo a bit (Fritz, are you reading?).

* “The Utopian Impulse of Docudrama” --this would be new material, but based on the diss. It's for a special issue of Modern Drama on Utopian Performatives, edited by Jill Dolan, whose thoughts on the matter come up often in my oral history/docudrama chapter. I'd actually need to act fast on this one, but the payoff could be pretty good.

* “‘This is Fabulously Counterfeit’: The Spanish Tragedy, Anti-Theatrical Anxiety, and Dramatic Containment of Violence.”--a seminar paper written YEARS ago, but honed after teaching several times and discussing with actual Rennaissance folk. It's all mapped out, but needs to be completely re-written, since I wasn't all that good a writer as an M.A. student.

* “Staging ‘The Inside of his Head’: Free Indirect Discourse in Modern American Drama.” This is really just the first chapter in what I hope will be my second book on narrative perspective in Modern Drama. I've got, like, twelve chapters mapped out on this puppy, but I'm just at very earliest stages of this project.

Crissakes. What am I doing bloggin when there's all this prose to be generated?