Garner, Stanton B.

Martin Puchner holds the H. Gordon Garbedian Chair in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and is the author of Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama (2002) and Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes (2006; winner of the MLA's James Russell Lowell Award). His edited books and introductions include Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen (2003), Lionel Abel's Tragedy and Metatheatre (2003), The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings (2005), and Modern Drama: Critical Concepts (2007). He is the co-editor of Against Theatre: Creative Destructions