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Margaret Werry
- Office Address: 550D Rarig Center
- Office Phone: 612-625-6783
- E-mail: werry001@umn.edu
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Margaret Werry is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance. She is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in Performance Studies (PhD Northwestern University, 2001), who works across the fields of Theatre, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, and Cultural History. Her current book project, The Tourist State: Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and the Racial Imagination examines the relationship between tourism, performance, ethnic politics, and liberal statehood, looking at cultural policy and tourism practice in the South Pacific at the turn of the twentieth century, and the turn of the twenty first. Her other scholarly interests include critical and experimental pedagogy, museology, multimedia performance and conceptual art, intercultural theatre, and sports culture. Her work has been published in Public Culture, Cultural Studies, Theatre Journal, Performance Research, TPQ, Review of Cultural Studies, Education and Pedagogy, and Essays in Theatre, and her research has been supported by grants from the Wenner Gren Anthropological Foundation, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and American Association of University Women, amongst others. Werry is also an actor, dramaturge, and performance artist, and has worked with Chicago companies Lookinglass Theatre, Naked Eye, and Cavity Lab.