Office Hours
Wednesday 1–3 pm in-person or by appointment via Zoom
Education
PhD, Rutgers University
About Me
Sunny Stalter-Pace received her PhD from Rutgers University and her BA from Loyola University Chicago. She specializes in the interdisciplinary study of American modernism, urban studies and popular performance. Her most recent book, Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann's Life in Vaudeville and Dance, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2020. This critical biography considers how a vaudeville performer and producer transmitted European culture to American mass audiences. Her current research interest is the cultural history of the New York Hippodrome.
Honors and Awards
2020 New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowship
2020 Harry Ransom Center Travel Fellowship
2019 SEC Visiting Faculty Travel Grant
2015 Provost’s Grant Award, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University
2010 Alabama Humanities Foundation Mini-grant
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Research Interests
American studies; 20th to 21st-century American literature; criticism and theory; cultural studies; genre studies; drama; space and place; women's and gender studies; American modernism; visual culture; film
Publications
Books
Imitation Artist: Gertrude Hoffmann’s Life in Vaudeville and DanceNorthwestern University Press, May 2020 (Reviewed in The Journal of American Culture, Modern Drama, Studies in Musical Theatre, and Theatre Survey)
Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway, University of Massachusetts Press, December 2013.
Edited Volumes
Theatre Symposium 31: Theatre & The Popular Co-edited with Chase Bringardner. Forthcoming for University of Alabama Press.
Recent Articles
“Realistic Spectacle: Arthur Voegtlin’s Nineteenth-Century Stagecraft at the New York Hippodrome.” Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film 50.2 (November 2023), 137-151.
“Disappearing Mermaids: Staging White Women’s Mobility through Aquatic Performance at the New York Hippodrome.” Theatre Survey 64.1 (January 2023): 1-21.
“Getting to Know Gertrude Hoffmann (and Her Girls).” The Passing Show: Newsletter of the Shubert Archive 35 (2020/2021): 2-21.
“The Precarity of Fluffy Ruffles: Reading a Progressive Era Comic Strip in the Age of #MeToo,” Feminist Modernist Studies 2.3 (2019): 314-322.
“Imitation Modernism: Gertrude Hoffman’s 'Russian' Ballets,” Modernism/modernity Print+ cluster, “Modernism on the World Stage” Volume 4, Cycle 3 (October 15, 2019).
Recent Book Chapters
“Subway: Underground Networks Through Modernist Poetry and Prose.” Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology. Eds. Alex Goody and Ian Whittington. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 63-77.
“Urbanization.” American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930. Ed. Ichiro Takayoshi. Cambridge University Press: New York, 2018. 240-256.
Courses Taught
Introduction to Literary Analysis; Capstone: Women and Modern Performance; Contemporary American Drama & the Problem of History; Modernist Cities; American Popular Performance; Intro to Critical Theory; Topics in Critical Theory; Topics in Popular Culture; Southern Literature; American Expressionism; American Realism and Naturalism; American Literature II; Honors World Literature II