Biography
Ph.D., Michigan State University, American Studies Associate Professor Professor Rohs' research interests involve subjects in 19th Century American culture, including the American Renaissance, immigration, race, ethnicity, and nationalism, music and theatrical performance, and class and urban studies. A second major area of interest is nature studies, from environmental history to nature writing. He is currently working on publishing his recently completed dissertation, Eccentric Nation: Ir
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Steve Rohs published (Sept. 2009) Eccentric Nation: Irish Performance in Nineteenth Century New York with Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
"In March 2008, Steve Rohs published ""'Full of Proud Memories of the Past, on which Irishmen Love to Dwell': Irish Nationalist Performance and the Orange Riots of 1871"" in a special issue of Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies that focused on the city."