Lisa A. Freeman
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Lisa A. Freeman is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of English. A former Head of the English Department and a scholar of Eighteenth-Century Studies and Theater and Performance Studies, she is the author of Character's Theater: Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage (UPenn, 2002), and Antitheatricality and the Body Public (UPenn, 2017), which was named the Runner-Up for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education Outstanding Book Award, a Finalist for the Theatre Library Association George Freedley Award, and an Honorable Mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize. Freeman is also the author of "Mourning the Dignity of the Siddonian Form," published in a special issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Eighteenth-Century Drama, and the editor of the Sarah Siddons volume for Pickering and Chatto's Lives of Shakespearean Actors series. Most recently, she has published essays on Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Elizabeth Inchbald's "Remarks" for the British Theatre, and George Colman's The Iron Chest. A former President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, she is also a founding member of the R/18 Collective, a group of international scholars committed to dramaturgical knowledge and the re-activation of the Restoration and 18th-Century theater repertoire for 21st-Century stages.