As a scholar and teacher, Matt Cornish is interested in the intersections of theater 和性能 studies, 哲学, 和德国研究. 他是 执行统一: History and Nation in German 剧院 after 1989 (U. of Michigan Press, 2017/paperback 2019), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2018. Marvin Carlson wrote of the book: “This important study not only sheds significant new light on the modern German stage, but has implications for the relationship between theatre and contemporary society around the world.” In 《newbb电子》, Katrin Sieg wrote that 执行统一 “will be the indispensable complement to [Hans-Thies] Lehmann’s” Postdramatic剧院. Matt is also the editor of Everything and 其他 Performance Texts from Germany (海鸥书, 2019), which includes performance texts by Gob Squad and Rimini Protokoll, 等. And he is co-editor, with Michael Shane Boyle and Brandon Woolf, of Postdramatic Dramatic Theatre and Form (Methuen, 2019), to which he contributed a chapter on postmigrant theater in Germany. In his current book project, he is exploring questions related to ethics, 美学, 和性能.

Matt’s essays have appeared in books including the Routledge Companion to Scenography，以及在剧院杂志, 现代戏剧, 性能研究, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art,TheatreForum, TDR:戏剧评论, 剧院. As a critic and journalist, he has contributed to leading German theater magazine 时代剧场, he has also published in n+1 在网上, 公共图书，和 《newbb电子》. His research has been supported by a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, a Fulbright Research Fellowship, a DAAD Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 都在柏林举行.

作为一个剧作家, Matt has worked at 发脾气剧院, 耶鲁话剧团, 长码头剧院, 是西墨勒的儿子, with IAMA Theatre Company. He dramaturgs productions at newbb电子平台, mentors student dramaturgs, helps to lead educational outreach efforts in rural areas around 雅典.

He has taught in the past at Yale College, Yale 学校 of Drama, Mount Holyoke College.

教育背景:

Doctor of 美术, Yale 学校 of Drama
Master of 美术, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale 学校 of Drama
Bachelor of Arts, 剧院, German, Philosophy, University of Denver