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Jason Fitzgerald studies U.S. cultural development from the postwar period to the present, with a particular interest in the political and philosophical foundations of theatrical form and the changing fate of humanist thought. He holds an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama and a PhD in Theatre from Columbia University’s Department of English and Comparative Literature. Fitzgerald's research includes ecocriticism, antifascism, disaster studies, camp queer performance, feminism, and African-American drama. His current book project, 'Theater and Humanism: Reading Radical Sixties Stage,' reconsiders the relationship between politics and performance in the U.S. during the 1960s, mapping how avant-garde theatre artists transformed practices within the left-wing counterculture. He has published essays in various academic journals, with his latest work focused on Amiri Baraka's ambivalent relationship with humanist universalism. Fitzgerald is also a practicing dramaturg and theatre critic, with reviews appearing in publications like the Village Voice and Back Stage. He served as the Book Review Editor for Theatre Journal from 2019 to 2021.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science