Stanton B. Garner Jr. (born 1955) is an American scholar of drama, theater, and performance who specializes in modern and contemporary drama, theatre and performance theory, and medical humanities. A graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and Princeton University, he is currently James Douglas Bruce Professor of English and Theater at the University of Tennessee.[1][2] With J. Ellen Gainor and Martin Puchner, he is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Drama and The Shorter Norton Anthology of Drama (2009; 3rd ed. 2018) (W. W. Norton & Company).[3]

His late father, Stanton Garner (1925 - 2011), was a scholar of nineteenth-century American literature.[4]

Publications edit

  • Garner Jr., Stanton B. (2023). Theatre & Medicine. London: Methuen Drama. ISBN 9781350330153.[5]
  • Garner Jr., Stanton B. (2018). Kinesthetic Spectatorship in the Theatre: Phenomenology, Cognition, Movement. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319917931.[6]
  • Garner Jr., Stanton B. (1999). Trevor Griffiths: Politics, Drama, History. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472110659.[7]
  • Garner Jr., Stanton B. (1994). Bodied Spaces: Phenomenology and Performance in Contemporary Drama. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801430399.[8]
  • Garner Jr., Stanton B. (1989). The Absent Voice: Narrative Comprehension in the Theater. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0252016076.


References edit

  1. ^ "Stanton B. Garner Jr". Department of English. University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Garner, Stanton B. 1955-". WorldCat. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  3. ^ "The Norton Anthology of Drama". W. W. Norton & Co. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Stanton Berry Garner Obituary (2011) Austin American-Statesman". Legacy.com. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Theatre & Medicine". Bloomsbury Publishing (US). Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  6. ^ "Kinesthetic Spectatorship in the Theatre: Phenomenology, Cognition, Movement". Springer Link. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  7. ^ "Trevor Griffiths: Politics, Drama, History". University of Michigan Press. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  8. ^ "Bodied Spaces: Phenomenology and Performance in Contemporary Drama". Cornell University Press. Retrieved 2 March 2023.