Misty Anderson
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Misty Anderson
Professor of English & Affiliate Professor of Theatre and Religious Studies
Restoration, 18th-Century, Drama/Theatre
Misty G. Anderson is Professor of English, the James R. Cox Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, and holds courtesy appointments as an Affiliate Professor in both the Theatre and Religious Studies departments at the University of Tennessee. Anderson is the author of Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self (Johns Hopkins, 2012) and Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage (Palgrave, 2002). She a co-editor of the two-volume Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama (2017), and Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance (2019). She is currently at work on a third book project, God on Stage, and the new R/18 Collective, a consortium of international scholars fostering professional productions of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays relevant to our present conversations about gender, race, sectarianism, nation, and capital.
Education
- B.A., Yale University, 1989
- M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1991
Specialties
Publications
Books
- The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance, co-editor, with Kristina Straub and Daniel O’Quinn. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- The Routledge Anthology and Sourcebook of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama. (with Kristina Straub and Daniel O’Quinn.) New York and London: Routledge, 2017.
- Imagining Methodism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Belief, Enthusiasm, and the Borders of the Self (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012)
- Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage (Palgrave-St. Martin’s Global, 2002)
Digital and Public Scholarship
- Executive Producer and Writer, The Busy Body in Performance: A Documentary. May 2017 (https://theatre.utk.edu/the-busy-body/ aired publicly on ETPBS).
- Editorials in Huffington Post, Knoxville News Sentinel, Tennesseean
- Director, The Mysterious Mother, Yale Center for British Art, May 2, 2018.
- Dramaturg and Script Editor, The Busy Body, Clarence Brown Theatre, Feb. 2017.
- Dramaturg, Our Country’s Good, Clarence Brown Theatre, University of Tennessee, October 3-20, 2013, and director, The Recruiting Officer, October 11, 2013.
Recent Articles
- “Body.” The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Enlightenment Comedy. Elizabeth Kraft. New York and London: Bloomsbury Press, April 2020.
- “Evangelical Hair.” The Bloomsbury Anthology of Eighteenth-Century Hair. Joseph Roach and Margaret Powell. New York and London: Bloomsbury Press. 4: 17-38, Dec. 2018.
- “Zombie Sovereignty.” Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700. 40 (2): 105-114, Fall 2016.
- “The Scottish Play: Centlivre and The Wonder of British Nationalism.” Eighteenth Century Fiction, Special Issue, Ed. Daniel O’Quinn 27 (3-4:) 451-478, Spring/Spring 2015.
- “Unholy Laughter.” Special issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins 26 (4): 731-755, Summer 2014.
- “The Genealogies of Georgian Comedy.” Ed. David Francis Taylor. The Oxford Handbook to Georgian Theatre. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013.
- “Sacred Satire: Representing Religious Belief in Eighteenth Century Britain.” Curated gallery show book, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. September 22, 2011-March 1, 2012.
- “Embodying Centlivre’s Comic Vision: A Bold Stroke for a Wife and The Wonder; a Woman Keeps a Secret in the Classroom. The MLA Guide to Teaching British Women Playwrights of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. Ed. Bonnie Nelson and Catherine Burroughs. New York: MLA, 2010.
- “Women Playwrights.” Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730-1830. Ed. Jane Moody and Daniel O’Quinn. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007: 145-158.
- “Baby Talk; or, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Exit.” ADE Bulletin, 138-139, Fall 2005-Spring 2006.