Biography

Dr. William Storm

Professor Emeritus
wstorm@nmsu.edu

Before joining the NMSU faculty, Dr. Storm taught in the Theatre and English departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, and the University of Southern California. His doctorate, from UCSB, is in dramatic literature and theory and he holds an MFA in playwriting from USC. He is the author of After Dionysus: A Theory of the Tragic (Cornell), Irony and the Modern Theatre (Cambridge), and Dramaturgy and Dramatic Character: A Long View (Cambridge, 2016) as well as scholarly essays and plays.  His essays have appeared in Comparative Drama, Narrative, The Henry James Review, Victorian Studies, The African American Review, and Modern Drama. He worked in the professional theatre in Los Angeles for many years, including at the Mark Taper Forum where he was literary manager. His work at the Taper included serving as production dramaturg on many plays in workshop development and full production. Areas of scholarly specialization include dramatic theory and dramaturgy, the history and theory of the tragic form and sensibility, art in relation to literature and performance, and connections of science with theatre and narrative studies. He is co-director and dramaturg for the High Desert Play Development workshop.