Lorna Fitzsimmons, Ph.D.

Professor

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Lorna Fitzsimmons has research interests in studies in literature, film and media, musicology, performance, health and medical humanities, cognitive studies, environmental studies, sustainability, disability studies, and gender studies. She is the editor, co-editor, author, or ghostwriter of 14 books (Oxford University Press, Amsterdam University Press [forthcoming], Routledge (2), Intellect [forthcoming], Palgrave, Northwestern University Press, Lehigh University Press, Purdue University Press, Brepols, Continuum, De Gruyter, Lexington).


Recent or Forthcoming Publications or Presentations by Lorna Fitzsimmons include:

Editor, Schechner Plays, by Richard Schechner (Intellect Books, 2023).

“Intercultural Critique of Subalternization: Parody in Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino,” in Teaching Comedy, ed. Beverly Hogue (Modern Language Association, 2023).

Paper Presentation, “Xenotransplantation: Ethical, Social, Technical, and Environmental Issues from Cross-Cultural Perspectives,” 12th Annual Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference, September 22-23, 2022.

Paper Presentation, “‘You hover between life and death’: Embodied Effects and Ethical Issues of Death-Fast Spatial Tactics,” 10th International Health Humanities Consortium Conference, Spaces of/for Health Humanities, Lehigh University, March 25 – 27, 2022.

The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music (with Charles McKnight) (Oxford University Press, 2019).