William Boles, PhD

Professor
Hugh F. and Jeannette G. McKean Chair

BA, Wake Forest
MA, University of Maine
PhD, University of Tennessee

Dr. Boles teaches courses in dramatic literature and film. He is the author of The Argumentative Theatre of Joe Penhall (McFarland, 2011) and Understanding David Henry Hwang (University of South Carolina, 2013). He is the editor of After In-Yer-Face: Remnants of a Theatrical Revolution (Palgrave, 2020) and Theater in a Post-Truth World: Texts, Politics and Performance (Bloomsbury, 2022). He is currently writing a monograph on Mike Bartlett for Routledge’s Modern and Contemporary Dramatists–Stage and Screen series. He is the co-editor of Methuen Drama’s Agitations series and director of the annual Comparative Drama Conference.