Guest Lectures
He has presented guest lectures on a variety of subjects, including:
- Passing and Covering: Good Choices for LGBT Students?
- The History of Theater Philanthropy in America
- Recovering the Legacy of Eva Le Gallienne and Her Civic Repertory Theatre
- The Legacy of Garbo's Cuban Lover: Mercedes de Acosta
- The Evolution and Development of Ibsen's Plays in America: A Century of Change
- Frontier Theatre and the American Opera House
- Patrons of Eva Le Gallienne: Otto Kahn, Alice DeLamar, and Mary Curtis Bok
- Why Lillian Hellman succeeded as a Playwright and De Acosta Failed: A Comparison of Two of Their Plays--"The Children's Hour" and "Jacob Slovak"
- Playing Sherlock: Why Write Theatre History
- How to Publish (And Not Perish)
- "Death of a Salesman" and the Wheel of Domestic Violence
- Hollywood's Furious Lesbians
- Jumping Hurdles: Roadblocks in Writing Gay Theater History
Most lectures are illustrated with either slides or Power Point.
In recent years, he has been invited to present lectures at the following:
- Library of Congress (Washington D.C.)
- Lesbian/GayBi/Transgender Community Center (New York City)
- Southern Illinois University
- Louisiana State University
- University of Missouri
- University of North Dakota
- Bradley University
- Illinois Wesleyan
- Trinity University
- Illinois State University
- Allegheny College
- St. John's Fisher College
- Augustana College
- Vanderbilt University
- University of Florida
- Texas Tech University
The typical residency is 2 - 3 days during which he presents several lectures. Most are scheduled as a part of a regular student class, but sometimes they are scheduled as a public lecture.
The following professors could be contacted to give an evaluation
of his lectures:
Fees for a residency are definitely negotiable.