Angus Fletcher
Ph.D. Yale
Assistant Professor

Angus Fletcher specializes in theatre history, particularly Shakespeare and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His research focuses on the impact of theatre upon political science, psychology, ethics, and even biology. He has published nearly a dozen articles in journals such as Modern Philology, English Literary History, Studies in English Literature, and The Journal of the History of Ideas. His most recent article, forthcoming from Comparative Literature, argues that Machiavelli’s theory of democracy is indebted to his fascination with the slaves of Roman comedy. He is also working on a book entitled The Ethics of Doubt: Skepticism, Tragedy, and Community in the Age of Hamlet. His research has been supported by grants from the Huntington, the Clark Memorial Library, the Beinecke, and the Bodleian.

Angus received his PhD from Yale and taught for three years at Stanford before coming to USC. He has received teaching awards from all three institutions. In addition to lectures on theatre history, he also teaches upper-level seminars on dramaturgy and script analysis.

Since coming to USC, Angus has become interested in the potential of theatrical approaches to plot and narrative to enrich cinema and television. He has mentored several undergraduate collaborations between the School of Theatre and the School of Cinematic Arts, and this summer, he received a Panavision grant to shoot a small feature film on the experience of U.S. aircrews serving in Saudi Arabia.