秘密研究所

Professor of Literature

Year Joined RCNJ: 2010

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7180
• Email: tbarnes1@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-141
• Office Hours: TF 12:00-1:30 pm

Education:

• Ph.D.聽University of California, Berkeley, Rhetoric 聽(Designated Emphasis in Film Studies)
• M.A.听听University of California, Berkeley, Rhetoric
• B.A.听听聽University of California, Berkeley, English
• CV

Courses Offered:

• Shakespeare鈥檚 Plays
• Literary Theory and Criticism
• Senior Seminar: The Performance of Everyday Life
• Shakespeare on Film
• American Drama
• Survey of British Literature I
• Critical Reading and Writing
• Self-Growth: Philosophies of Self Care
• Masters of Suspicion: Nietzsche, Freud, Marx

Teaching Interests:

• Shakespeare,
• Rhetorical Theory,
• Film Studies,
• Dramatic literature in performance,
• Continental Philosophy

Research Interests:

• performance studies
• race and gender studies
• literary theory
• critical theory
• philosophies of history and difference

Scholarly Activity:

Books:

• 聽(Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Articles:

• “”听Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy, vol. 45, no. 1聽(2025), pp. 59-74
• ‘Mixing the Barricade聽and the聽Dance Floor’: Recovering Acid Communism at Zabriskie Point” in聽The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoactive Drug Use, edited by Rob Lovering (Palgrave 2024)

• 鈥淢acbeth鈥檚 鈥楽trange Garments鈥�: Borrowing Africa鈥檚 Robes,鈥� Guide to the Season鈥檚 Plays: 2016-2017. Shakespeare Theatre Company. 2016. An excerpt of this essay appeared in , the playbill for Macbeth, directed by Liesl Tommy.

• “,”听, May 1, 2016.聽Public Books聽is an online multimedia site affiliated with the print journal聽Public Culture聽(Duke University Press).聽Public Books聽is an initiative of the聽Institute for Public Knowledge聽at New York University.
• “Striking Our Debt to Moral Tragedy: Retributive Economics in Julius Caesar,” in Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader. Ed. Andrew J. Hartley. Arden Shakespeare Early Modern Drama Guides (Bloomsbury, 2016).
• 鈥�The Tempest鈥檚 鈥楽tanding Water鈥�: Echoes of聽Early Modern Cosmographies in聽Lost,” in Shakespearean Echoes. Eds. Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. and Adam Hansen (Palgrave Macmillian 2015)
• “Hamlet on the Potomac: Anti-Intellectualism in American Political Discourse Before and After 鈥榯he Decider鈥�,” in Hamlet Handbook: Subject Matter, Adaptations, Interpretations (Hamlet Handbuch: Stoffe, Aneignungen, Deutungen). Ed. Peter W. Marx (Stuttgart/Weimar: Verlag J.B. Metzler, March 2014)
• 鈥淭he African-American Shakespeare鈥檚 Company’s聽Macbeth Project,鈥� Shakespeare Bulletin聽Special Issue: African-American Shakespeares, Ed. Ayanna Thompson. 27.3 (Fall 2009) Washington: Johns Hopkins University Press, 462-468
• 鈥淗ip Hop Macbeths, 鈥淒igitized Blackness,鈥� and the Millennial Minstrel: Illegal Culture Sharing in theVirtual Classroom鈥� in Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance. Eds. Ayanna Thompson and Scott Newstok. New York: Palgrave, 2009
• 鈥淕eorge W. Bush鈥檚 鈥楾hree Shakespeares鈥�: Macbeth, Macbush, and the Theater of War,鈥� Shakespeare Bulletin 26.3 (Fall 2008) Washington: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1-29
• 鈥淭he White Christian Shakespeare Complex: or, Why Neoliberal Redemption Dramas are an Emotional Drain,鈥� Paper presented at the 鈥淟iving Labor: Marxism and Performance Studies Conference,鈥� Department of Performance Studies, New York University, April 11-13, 2014