Roger Copeland is Professor of Theater and Dance at Oberlin College

Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...

 where he teaches History of Western Theatre among other classes. His essays about theater, film, and dance have appeared in The New York Times

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, The New Republic

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The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...

, The Village Voice

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, Film Comment

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, Partisan Review

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, American Theatre, and many other publications. His books include What Is Dance? and Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance. His film Camera Obscura won the Festival Award at the Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh in 1985. In 1989, Recorder, a video adaptation of his theater piece, "The Private Sector," was screened on WNET's Independent Focus series in New York City.

His most recent feature-length narrative film is The Unrecovered.

He enjoys lecturing on the Choric Dithyramb, and representation not re-presenataion.
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