Marvin A. Carlson

Marvin A. Carlson is the Sidney E. Cohn Chair in Theatre Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His wide-ranging research and teaching interests include dramatic theory and Western European theatre history, dramatic literature, and translation, especially of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

He has been awarded the ATHE Career Achievement Award, the George Jean Nathan Prize, the Bernard Hewitt prize, the George Freedley Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has been a Walker-Ames Professor at the University of Washington, a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Indiana University, a visiting professor at the Freie Universitat of Berlin, and a Fellow of the American Theatre. In 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Athens. His best-known book, Theories of the Theatre has been translated into eight languages. His book, The Haunted Stage, won the Calloway Prize.

Carlson has a Ph.D. in drama and theatre from Cornell University.