Joseph Cermatori

JOSEPH CERMATORI is a writer, editor, critic, translator, and historian. He teaches and publishes in the fields of comparative literature, modern and contemporary drama, performance studies, and critical theory. In addition to his primary research interest in twentieth-century modernism, his scholarship encompasses the broad history of art and ideas in Western culture from 1600 to the present, focusing on the philosophical content of artistic and creative forms. Currently he is associate professor of English at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he is affiliated with the department of theater and the program in gender studies. In recent years his work has been supported with awards and fellowships from the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (2022, 2008), the U.S. Department of Education (2011–15), the Columbia University Marion Ponsford Fellowship Fund (2016), the American Comparative Literature Association (2021), and through his participation with institutes for advanced research at Northwestern University (2009) and Harvard University (2012).