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Performance | James Doan, Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences
Thursday, February 6, 2014
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Irish Dracula presented by James Doan, Ph.D.
With a B.A. in Literature from U.C., Santa Cruz, an M.A. in Folklore and Mythology from U.C.L.A., an M.A. in Celtic Languages and Literatures as well as a Ph.D. in Folklore and Celtic Studies from Harvard. Since 1988, James Doan has taught courses in literature, the arts, folklore and mythology at Nova Southeastern University, including a course on the Vampire which he has taught for some 20 years. With Barbara Brodman, his longtime colleague at NSU, this year he co-edited two collections of essays on the vampire, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic, both published by Fairleigh Dickinson U. P.
In 2012 he also wrote a play, The Irish Dracula: A Melodrama in Five Acts, which he workshopped at NSU last academic year. Set in London and Co. Sligo, Ireland, in 1888, the play focuses on Bram Stoker and his relationship with the theatre director/Shakespearean actor Henry Irving of the Lyceum Theatre, for whom Stoker worked as business manager. The other characters in the play are loosely based on those found in the novel and constitute real people with whom Stoker interacts. Written as a melodrama, the dramatic reading at the museum will include a suite of Irish music performed by the Roaring Kelly Band.
NSU Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, Horvitz Auditorium
Please RSVP to moareservations@moafl.org or (954) 262-0227
$10 per person, includes museum admission; Free for museum members.