PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES 

• Franz, Michael Lawrence. “Erupting Presence into Absence: Possibility, Potentiality, and Performance in New Orleans’ 2019 Boycott Bowl.” The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 2023. (In Process)

• Franz, Michael. “Coming to America: Jacques Copeau’s Vieux Colombier in the U.S.” Six Magazine, Spring 2018. (Copies available upon request)

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CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
 

Papers Presented

• “Never Tell Me the Odds: The Impossible Pedagogy of Teaching Sports Plays.” Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), Pedagogy Symposium, Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 9-12, 2023.

• “‘We’re Talking about Practice’: Rehearsing Possible Pedagogy through Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), Emerging Scholars Panel, Detroit, Michigan. July 28-31, 2022.

• “Playing for Sports: Sports Plays as a Theatrical Endeavor.” Sport Literature Association (SLA), Virtual Session. June 15-18, 2022.

• “The Game is Not Over: The Performance of Possibility and Potentiality in New Orleans’ 2019 Boycott Bowl.” Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), Articles in Progress Session, Cleveland, Ohio. March 3-6, 2022.

• “Erupting Presence into Absence: Possibility, Potentiality, and Performance in New Orleans’ 2019 Boycott Bowl.” Jay and Dr. Sue Newman Award in Theatre Studies Virtual Presentation. January 24, 2022. 

• “Erupting Presence into Absence.” University at Buffalo (UB) Theatre and Dance Graduate Students Association, Output in the Interstice: Performance and Product in Times of Hiatus, A Virtual Symposium. May 22, 2021.

• “Erupting Presence into Absence.” Doctoral Theatre Students Association (DTSA) Graduate Student Conference (via Howlround and Martin Segal Center). April 28-29, 2021. [Moved online due to COVID-19]

• “Just One of the Boys: Oscar Asche’s Sporting Career Portraying the Muscular Christian Orient.” Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), Articles in Progress Session, Chicago, IL. March 6-9, 2020. 

• “The Illustrious Lady: Madeleine Béjart’s Role as Actress/Administrator in Seventeenth-Century French Theatre Practice.” American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference, Pre-1850 Publics Working Group, Arlington, VA. November 7-10, 2019. 

• “King of Kings: LeBron James’ Arousing Performance in the 2017-2018 NBA Season.” ASTR, Drive and Desire Working Group, San Diego, CA. November 15-18, 2018. [ASTR conference was canceled due to worker strike; my working group met virtually as planned.]