Winner, 2006 James Russell Lowell Prize, awarded by the MLA.
Honorable Mention, 2007 Modernist Studies Book Prize.

Translated into Turkish as Marx ve Avangar, Manifestolar, Devrimin Siiri (Istanbul: 6:45Yayin, 2012).

A study in the geography of modernity based on the proliferation and distribution of political and artistic manifestos in then nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book takes manifestos to be the central genre of modernity, what Marx called the "poetry of the revolution": the genre through which modernity sought to articulate its revolutionary ambitions. Case studies range from the theatrically-declaimed manifestos of Futurism and Dadaism to mixtures of drama and manifesto in the early twentieth century, but they also include the manifesto theater of Antonin Artaud and the happenings of the Situationists. The book concludes with a chapter on the history of TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies to gauge the challenges faced by a theatrical avant-garde since the sixties.

Reviewed in:
Politics and Culture 2:2; Modernism/Modernity 14:1; TDR: The Drama Review51:1(Spring 2007); Theatre Survey 48:1 (Spring 2007); Svenska Dagbladet (February 7, 2007); European Journal of English Studies 10:3 (December 2006); Papers of Surrealism No 5 (2007); Hallands Nyheter (February 12, 2007); New Left Review (November 2008); Electronic book review(March 13, 2008); Theatre Journal 48:3 (2007); Year's Work in English Study XIV (May 2008); Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature 7:1 (2008); Videri; Art Manifesto article on Wikipedia; Recherche Litteraire/Literary Research 25 (Summer 2009).