Victor L. Cahn
Professor

A.B., Columbia College
M.A. and Ph.D., New York University

Office: Palamountain 311
Phone:(518) 580-5158
Email: vcahn@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Shakespeare
• Modern Drama
• Expository Writing

 
Courses Taught:

• EN 105:  The Art of Reading Plays
• EN 215:  Drama
• EN 225:  Introduction to Shakespeare
• EN 345:  Shakespeare:  Comedies, Histories, and Romances
• EN 346:  Shakespeare:  The Tragedies
• EN 359:  Modern Drama

Selected Books:

• Shakespeare the Playwright:  A Companion to the Complete Tragedies, Histories, Comedies, and Romances
• The Plays of Shakespeare: A Thematic Guide
• Bard Games: The Shakespeare Quiz Book
• Political Animal: An Essay on the Character of Shakespeare's Henry V
  
• Beyond Absurdity:  The Plays of Tom Stoppard
• Gender and Power in the Plays of Harold Pinter
• Polishing Your Prose (with Steven M. Cahn, forthcoming)
  
• Classroom Virtuoso:  Recollections of a Life in Learning
• Conquering College:  A Guide for Undergraduates
• Fit to Kill (play)
• Roses in December (play)
• Embraceable Me (play)
• Romantic Trapezoid (novel)
  
• Sound Bites (novel)
  

Articles and Reviews:

The New  York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Literary Review, Modern Drama, and Variety.

Theater Experience:

Several plays produced Off-Broadway and regionally, including Sherlock Solo, which he performs. Appeared in works by  Shakespeare, Shaw, Coward, Pinter, Gurney, Simon, and Knott.