Martin Harries

Martin Harries teaches at the University of California, Irvine, and writes about twentieth-century and contemporary theater, modernism, and theory. He has just published Theater after Film (University of Chicago Press, 2025), a book about the impact of mass culture on postwar drama. His previous books are Forgetting Lot’s Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship (Fordham University Press, 2007) and Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment (Stanford University Press, 2000).