associate professor of Communication Studies at Emerson College, will perform a monologue in character and then answer questions, first in character and then out of character. Anderson is a performance studies scholar who focuses his research on narrative theory and performance. He is the author of The Student Companion to William Faulkner. In addition to publishing articles in Text and Performance Quarterly, he has served as Book Review Co-Editor for the journal. He performs nationally in his one-person shows as authors Henry James, William Faulkner, Washington Irving, Lynn Riggs, and Robert Frost. He has received grants to present humanities programs on early America, the Civil War, the 1930s, and the Centennial of Oklahoma statehood. He is a former Chair of the Performance Studies Division of the National Communication Association and served as Director of the Honors Program at Emerson for ten years.