Dr. Ryan Anthony Hatch
Associate Professor
Modern & Contemporary Drama
director of Graduate Studies in English
English Major Advisor
Office: Bldg. 47-26R
Phone: 805-756-2238
E-mail: Ryan Hatch
Winter 2023 Office Hours: Wednesdays, 2:10 to 4 p.m., via Zoom, or by appointment
Zoom Link: https://calpoly.zoom.us/j/7403940128
Education
Ph.D. English, The State University of New York, University at Buffalo, 2014
M.A. English, The State University of New York, University at Buffalo, 2008
B.A. Philosophy, Kalamazoo College 2004, cum laude
Teaching and Research
Modern and Contemporary Drama
Postdramatic/Performance Theater
Psychoanalytic Criticism and Theory (Freud, Lacan)
Marxism
Aesthetic Theory
Selected Publications
“Community Theater: A Critics’ Roundtable” (with Joseph Cermatori and Miriam Felton-Dansky). PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 36.3 (Fall 2014).
“First as Minstrelsy, Then As Farce: On The Spectacle of Race in the Theater of Young Jean Lee.” CR: The New Centennial Review 13.3 (Fall 2013).
“Performance Geometries: A Primer (Notes from Crossing the Line 2012).” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 35.2 (Spring 2013).
“Found Artifice: An Interview With Daniel Fish.” Culturebot (November 14, 2012). On-line only: http://www.culturebot.org/2012/11/15032/prelude12-wrap-up-found-artifice/
“Of the Clinical, of the Critical” (with Nathan Gorelick, Lydia Renée Kerr, and Michael Stanish). Correspondances 11.2 (Fall 2010).
“Tuché and Utopian.” Umbr(a), a journal of the unconscious: Utopia (Summer 2008).