Titan’s “Goodbye Kiss”: Legacy Rockets and the Conquest of Space

Authors

  • Vivian Appler College of Charleston

Author Biography

Vivian Appler, College of Charleston

Vivian Appler is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. She is a 2010 Fulbright Fellow for puppetry and particle physics and a 2015 Huntington Library Dibner Fellow in the History of Science and Technology. She has published in Comparative Drama, The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, and the Routledge Companion to Jacques LeCoq.

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