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Misty Anderson

Misty Anderson

June 28, 2024

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Misty Anderson

Professor of English & Affiliate Professor of Theatre and Religious Studies

Restoration and 18th-Century Literature and Culture, Drama, Performance, Theatre, Gender and Sexuality, Religion and Literature

Misty G. Anderson is Professor and Head of English, 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 the incoming president of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. She is currently at work on a third book project, God on Stage, and is a founding member of the 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

Restoration and 18th-Century Literature and Culture, Drama, Performance, Theatre, Gender and Sexuality, Religion and Literature

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 Performance Scholarship

  • Producer, Cato, Clarence Brown Theatre, September 2023
  • Consulting Dramaturg, Animal Magnetism, dir. José Zayas, Red Bull Theatre, New York, NY, Jan. 23, 2023, broadcast staged reading.
  • Producer, A Staged Reading of The Provok’d Wife, dir. Phillip Breen, Associate Director at the RSC, Knoxville, TN, November 3, 2022.
  • Dramaturg, The Convent of Pleasure, dir. Kim Wield, Red Bull Theatre, New York, NY, Zoom production March 7, 2022.
  • Producer, The Critic, r18collective.org, March 2021.
  • Producer, The Emperor of the Moon, r18collective.org, November 2020.

Recent Articles

  • “Dissent.” The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures. Ed. Suvir Kaul, Nicole Aljoe, and Sarah Eron. New Brunswick: Routledge, 2023.
  • “Staging The Mysterious Mother.” In The Mysterious Mother, ed. Jill Campbell, Jonathan Kramnick, and Cynthia Roman. New Haven: Yale University Press, November 2023.
  • “Is Nothing Sacred? Place, Space, and the University.” Critical Times special issue, edited by Christopher Newfield, 5.1: 129-138 (April 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1215/26410478-9536527
  • “Inchbald in Performance: Restoring the Repertoire in the 21st Century.” Mrs Inchbald: Essays in Honor of Annibel Jenkins.  Eds. E. Joe Johnson and Daniel Ennis.  Newark, DE: U Delaware P, 2022.
  • “The Emperor of the Moon in 2020.” Theatralia 24:2021, 299-302. https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2021–1-25.
  • “Body.” The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Enlightenment Comedy. Elizabeth Kraft. New York and London: Bloomsbury Press, April 2020.
  • “Staging The Mysterious Mother.” https://www.18thcenturycommon.org/categories/collections/staging-the-mysterious-mother/ June 2019.
  • “Evangelical Hair.” The Bloomsbury Anthology of Eighteenth-Century Hair. Eds. Joseph Roach and Margaret Powell.  New York and London: Bloomsbury Press. 4: 17-38, Dec. 2018.

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