Associate Professor of English
B.A., B.S., SUNY-Buffalo
M.A., Ph.D. Indiana

Office:  Carolina Inn 201  Ext:  2012
email: Ann Fox

Dr. Fox specializes in twentieth-century dramatic literature and disability studies. Her teaching interests include modern drama, disability in drama and literature, feminist theatre, contemporary American multicultural drama, performance theory, and women writers.  Her scholarship has traced the rise of feminist sensibilities in American commercial theatre; her articles on playwrights Rachel Crothers and Sophie Treadwell have been published in Text and Presentation, while her study of Dorothy Parker’s playwriting appears in the volume The Critical Waltz:  Essays on the Work of Dorothy Parker.

More recently, her work on disability and performance has been published in Contemporary Theatre Review, the National Women's Studies Association Journal, and the book Gendering Disability.  She has been an American Association of University Women American Postdoctoral Fellow for 2003-04,  A National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Disability Studies Fellow, A National Humanities Center Jesse Ball DuPont Summer Seminar Fellow, a Salzburg Seminar Fellow, an IES (Institute for the International Education of Students) Faculty Development Seminar Fellow, and a participant in the 2008 and 2009 Yale National Initiative Intensive Sessions in support of the formation of the Charlotte Teacher's Institute.  

She has served on the executive board of the Society for Disability Studies; at present, she is a member of the MLA Executive Committee of the Division on Disability Studies.  Her current book project traces the representation of disability on the twentieth-century commercial stage.  In January 2009, she was co-curator for Re/Formations: Disability, Women, and Sculpture, an exhibit of the Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College.  This fall, she is co-curator of Staring:  How We Look, an exhibit at the Van Every/Smith Galleries opening in October 2009.  She will also be leading a pilot seminar for the Charlotte Teachers Institute entitled " 'Performing' Experiments:  Depictions of Science in Theatre." 

Dr.  Fox is the coordinator for the Gender Studies Concentration at Davidson College.

Courses recently taught:

• Modern Drama
• Literary Analysis
• Introduction to Literature: Reading Violence
• Disability and Literature (300-level survey)
• Contemporary Drama
• Contemporary American Multicultural Drama
• Composition and Literature: Extraordinary Bodies
  (focuses on disability history, disability activism, and disability art)
• Women Writers 
• Seminars:  Queer Performance and/as Activism (with Dr. Sharon Green), Disability and Literature, Contemporary American Feminism and Theatre, Early American Drama

Courses for Fall 2009
ENG 101W, Writing About Drama
ENG 220, Literary Analysis