Dr. Ryan Anthony Hatch

Associate Professor


psychoanalytic theory, literary theory, Modern & Contemporary Drama, performance studies

director of Graduate Studies in English

English Major Advisor

Office:  Bldg. 47-26R
Phone:  805-756-2238
E-mail:  Ryan Hatch

Spring 2025 Office Hours: Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m., in person or via Zoom
Zoom Link: https://calpoly.zoom.us/j/7403940128

Education

Ph.D. English, The State University of New York, University at Buffalo, 2014
M.A. English, The State University of New York, University at Buffalo, 2008
B.A. Philosophy, Kalamazoo College 2004, cum laude

Teaching and Research

Psychoanalysis
Literary Criticism and Theory
Modern and Contemporary Drama
Performance Studies
Marxism
Aesthetic Theory

Selected Publications

“Sex: Trouble.” Filozofski vestnik 46.2 (forthcoming 2025). Print.
 
“The Politics of Aesthetics, in a State of Disruption,” in Colette Conroy and Nic Fryer (ed), Rancière and Performance, Performance Philosophy Series, Rowman and Littlefield, December 2020.
 
“Plaything: On the Work of Art in the Age of its Algorithmic Adaptability.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. 42.3 (2020): 82 – 89. Print.
 
“Hallucinating Networks and Secret Museums: Hito Steyerl on Our Aesthetic Immiseration.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. 41.2 (2019): 119-124. Print.
 
“Galleries: Resituating the Postdramatic Real” in M. Shane Boyle, Matthew Cornish, and Brandon Woolf (ed), Postdramatic Theatre and Form, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama (Engage Book Series), 2019.
 
with Joseph Cermatori and Miriam Felton-Dansky, “Community Theater: The New York Season 2013 - 2014.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 36.3 (2014): 14-33. Print.
 
“First as Minstrelsy, Then as Farce: On the Spectacle of Race in the Theater of Young Jean Lee.” CR: The New Centennial Review 13.3 (Psychoanalysis and Race special issue) (2013): 89-114. Print.
 
“Performance Geometries: A Primer.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
35.2 (2013): 54-62. Print.
 
(with Nathan Gorelick, Lydia Renée Kerr, and Michael Stanish) “Of the Clinical, of the Critical.” Correspondances 11.2 (2010): 13-21.
 
“Tuché and Utopian.” Utopia. Special Issue of Umbr(a), a journal of the unconscious (2008): 5-11.
 

Reviews and other writing/media
 

“Review: Julia Jarcho, Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism,” solicited for forthcoming issue of Modern Drama (2025).

“Ryan Hatch interviews Ramzi Fawaz about Queer Forms,” SKYLIT Podcast (Skylight Books, Los Angeles), September 2022. https://skylightbooks.podbean.com/e/skylit-ramzi-fawaz-the-new-mutants-w-ryan-hatch/

“Review: Nicholas Ridout, Scenes from Bourgeois Life.” Theatre Journal 74.2 (June 2022). Print.

“Review: Kate Bredeson, Occupying The Stage: The Theater of May ’68.” TDR (1988-) 64.1 (Spring 2020). Print.

“Review: Jerome Carroll, Steve Giles, and Karen Jürs-Munby (ed), Postdramatic Theatre and the Political: International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 38.1 (2016). Print.

“Found Artifice: An Interview With Daniel Fish.” Culturebot.org. Published November 14, 2012. Web. 

“Review: Alain Badiou, The Century.” Umbr(a), a journal of the unconscious (2007).

Edited Collections
 

Utopia. Special Issue of Umbr(a), a journal of the unconscious (2008).

 

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