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Angus Fletcher

Angus Fletcher

Angus Fletcher

Professor of English; Professor of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts
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fletcher.300@osu.edu

614-292-6065

472 Denney Hall
164 Annie and John Glenn Ave
Columbus, OH 43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • Screenwriting
  • Critical theory
  • Adaptation studies
  • Narrative production

Education

  • PhD Yale University

Angus fletcher is the Black List and Nicholl award-winning screenwriter of Middle Earth (produced by Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, directed by James Strong) Wee Free Men (produced by Allison Thomas and Gary Ross, based on the novel by Terry Pratchett) and Variable Man (produced by Isa Dick and Electric Shepherd, based on the novela by Philip K. Dick). He earned his PhD from Yale and has published articles on dramatic ethics and practice in Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, and a dozen other academic journals. In April 2016, he released Comic Democracies: From Ancient Athens to the American Republic. His book Evolving Hamlet appeared on Palgrave in 2011, and his research and writing has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. Prior to coming to Ohio State, he taught at University of Southern California, Stanford, and Teach for America.

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