WORKS IN PROGRESS

I am completing a special issue of the journal Pre/Text entitled "Rhetorics of Architecture." This issue will feature work on theories of architecture and their relationship to writing and rhetoric by cultural critics, art historians, and others.

 Some of my work that is in progress includes "The Uses and Misuses of Oscar Wilde," an invited essay for Postmodern Victoriana: Contemporary Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century. John Kucich and Dianne F. Sadoff, editors. This book is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. In this piece, I discuss the new film version of Wilde’s life starring Stephen Fry, as well as other recent attempts at versions of Wilde’s plays and Wilde’s life.

One of my current interests is postmodern architecture—particularly that of casinos. Building on work that I have already published on theming and the built environment at Walt Disney World in Florida, I have completed one invited essay entitled "Postmodern Casinos" for Productive Postmodernism: Consuming Histories and Cultural Studies. John Duvall, editor. Afterword by Linda Hutcheon.


 

A second part of my work on casino architecture deals with the built environments of Native-American casinos. My focus in this work is on the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut, which I read in relation to cultural studies work done on Native American cultural production.
 
Other essays that are in process include one on Disney that is part memoir, part history of Florida.
 
 
Another research interest is on Truman Capote -- specifically his last major works (Music for Chameleons and the unfinished Answered Prayers) and his uncollected work.