B R I C E W A Y N E E Z E L L
briceezell@utexas.eduhttps://utexas.academia.edu/BriceEzell
Education
2015-present University of Texas, Austin, Texas PhD, expected 2021
MA, Spring 2017
Dissertation: The Theatre of Clarity: Analytic Philosophy in American and British Drama
Committee: David Kornhaber (chair), James Loehlin, Minou Arjomand, Tom Stern (University College of London)
2010-2014 George Fox University, Newberg, OR B.A. in English, Summa cum laude B.A. in Philosophy, Summa cum laude Other Educational Experience
2019 Mellon School for Theatre and Performance Research, Harvard University
2019 T.S. Eliot International Summer School, School of Advanced Study, University of London
2013 Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, Visiting Student
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2020 “Tom Stoppard and the Darkside of Drama, Theatre, and Philosophy.” Modern Drama, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 63-82.
2020 “The Neoliberal Tyrones in Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities.” The Eugene O’Neill Review, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 46-68.
Book Chapters(* denotes peer-reviewed):
2021 with Rachel Joseph. “Stoppard and Screenwriting.” Forthcoming in Tom Stoppard in Context, edited by David Kornhaber and James Loehlin, Cambridge University Press.
2017 *"Shackles and Garlands: Post-War Ageing and Remembering in Alan Bennett's Forty Years On and An Englishman Abroad." Autumnal Faces: Old Age in British and Irish Dramatic Narratives, edited by Katarzyna Bronk, Peter Lang, pp. 205-31.
Book Reviews
Forthcoming Review of Analytic Philosophy and the World of the Play by Michael Y. Bennett. Philosophy and Literature.
Forthcoming Review of Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950 by Patrick Lonergan. Theatre History Studies.
2018 Review of Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy by Todd McGowan. E3W Review of Books Vol. 18.
2017 Review of Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology by Karin Amimoto Ingersoll. E3W Review of Books Vol. 17, pp. 18-19.
2016 Review of A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. E3W Review of Books Vol. 15, pp. 33-4.
Educational Publications
2017 SparkNotes Enhanced Reader's Guides for The Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. (Exclusive online content for educators.)
Popular Publications
2011-present PopMatters
Over 200 feature pieces, interviews, and reviews of music, film, books, and television. Recent selections include:
“Austin Film Festival 2019: (Trans)national Justice.” Review of seven films, including A Hidden Life, Just Mercy, and Waves. 4 November 2019.
“David Mamet Lampoons Harvey Weinstein to No Effect in Bitter Wheat.” Review of Bitter Wheat by David Mamet, directed by Mamet, Garrick Theatre, London, UK, 16 July 2019.
“David Hare’s Peter Gynt is Ibsen on Steroids.” Review of Peter Gynt by David Hare, directed by Jonathan Kent, National Theatre, London, UK, 12 July 2019.
“Is There Hope for Knowledge? On Robert Pasnau’s After Certainty.” Review of After Certainty by Robert Pasnau (Oxford UP, 2016), 12 February 2019.
“Dan Brown Meets Roland Barthes in The Seventh Function of Language.” Review of Laurent Binet’s The Seventh Function of Language (FSG, 2017), 18 January 2018. “Arrival and the Lost in Translation.” Review of Arrival (dir. Denis Villenueve, 2016), 21 February 2017.
2016-2018 Consequence of Sound
Contributor; selections include:
“40 Years Later, Warren Zevon’s Legacy is Still Haunted by Werewolves.” 26 January 2018.
“Pink Floyd’s Animals Pulls No Political Punches 40 Years Later.” 29 May 2017.
Awards
2020-21 University Continuing Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin
2020 Outstanding Assistant Instructor (Graduate Instructor-of-Record), University of Texas English Department
2020 Clark Library/Center for 17th and 18th-Century Studies Predoctoral
Fellowship, University of California at Los Angeles
2019 University of Texas at Austin Graduate School Summer Dissertation Fellowship
2017 Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of Texas Department of English
2015 Recruitment Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin
2014 Outstanding Graduate, English Department and Philosophy Department, George Fox University
2012 Millennial Values Fellowship, Georgetown University Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs
2012 Richter Scholar Grant, Paul K. Richter and Evalyn E.C. Richter Memorial Funds
Teaching Experience
University of Texas at Austin Instructor-of-Record
2020 E 314 – Introduction to Literature (Topic: Literature and Film) 2019 E 314 – Introduction to Literature (Topic: The Pulitzer Prize) 2018 RHE 309K – Special Topics in Rhetoric: Rhetoric of the Heist 2017-18 RHE 306—Rhetoric and Writing
As Teaching Assistant
2019 LAH 350 – Plan II Honors: Best Pictures (1 section) 2017 E F397R—Music Videos: History/Theory (1 section)
2016-17 SS 301—Plan II Honors Social Science: The Sources of the Human Self (2 sections)
2016-17 E316M—American Literature Survey (4 sections) 2015-16 E316L—British Literature Survey (4 sections)
Conference Presentations
2021 Modern Language Association Convention (originally Toronto, now online) Roundtable: Philosophy, Modernism, and Postmodernism in American Drama (organized by The Eugene O’Neill Society)
2020 Conference on Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin
Paper Presentation: “The ‘Unraped’ Laugh in Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers: Revising and Performing the Archival Dotty Moore”
2019 Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL
Paper Presentation: “Rudolph Fisher’s The Conjure-Man Dies: Modernism and the Epistemological Limits of Detective Fiction”
2018 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Annual Conference, Boston, MA. Paper Presentation: "A Well-Made Protest: The Revolutionary in the Family Drama in Jon Robin Baitz' Other Desert Cities"
2018 British Women Writer’s Conference, University of Texas at Austin
Paper Presentation: “Modern Drama in the Modern Novel: The Case of Between the Acts”
2018 Theatre and Thought in the European Tradition, University of Texas at Austin Roundtable Discussion: Theatre and Philosophy in the Archive (presentation on Tom Stoppard’s revisions to Jumpers)
2016 I Love Pop Interdisciplinary Conference, City University of New York Graduate Center
Paper Presentation: "DJ Khaled and the Keys to Advertorial Art" 2014 Pacific Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Pacific University
Paper Presentation: “Hegel on the Death (End) of Art: A Teleological Understanding”
2014 Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric, University of Alaska Anchorage
Paper Presentation: “A (Singular) Concept Wrapped in Skin and Chemicals: A Kolakian Reading of The Raw Shark Texts”
Other UT Work Experience
2018-present Research Assistant to David Kornhaber and James Loehlin for Tom Stoppard in Context (Cambridge University Press)
2018-19 Editorial Assistant, Texas Studies in Literature and Language
2018 Research Assistant to Dr. James Cox, The Politics of Native American Literature (University of Minnesota Press)
Theatre Experience
2019 Dramaturg for Austin Shakespeare production of Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard 2014-15 Playwright, George Fox University 24 ½ Hour Theatre Festival
Departmental Service
2018-present Member, Graduate Climate Committee 2017-present TA Mentor Program
2018-19 Graduate Program Committee Representative 2016, 2019 Professional Skills Committee
Other Employment History
2014-present Freelance Writer (Clients include SparkNotes, Baby Robot Media, and Tech Makai, Inc.)
2014-2015 Assistant Editor and DVD Editor, PopMatters
2012-2014: Writing Consultant/Academic Coach, George Fox University Academic Resource Center
Endorsements
Edmonds, David, and Nigel Warburton, editors. Philosophy Bites Again. Oxford UP, 2016. (Paperback edition.)
Professional Associations
Modern Language Association
Association for Theatre in Higher Education American Society for Theatre Research Performance Philosophy Network References available upon request.
