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Distinguished Graduates
Our recent graduates have written dissertations on topics as diverse as theatrical pageants and Jewish identity; queer and Christian performance activism in the US; visuality, embodiment, and the Jacobean masque; and feminist environmental performance art.
Wade Hollingshaus
(Faculty, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT) “Currencies of Rock Performance: Youth, Electricity, and Capital.”
Karen Martinson
(Independent Scholar, LA) “Producing Identifications, Resisting Inequalities: Dolls, Bell Bottoms, and Beats.”
Lauren Love
(Faculty, University of Wisconsin Baraboo/Sauk County) “I Hear America Kvelling Staging a Jewish American in the Twentieth Century.”
Roisin O’Gorman
(Faculty, University College of Cork, Ireland) “Untitled: Senses of Performance in the Work of Marina Carr, Dorothy Cross and Ana Mendieta.”
Jeanne Willcoxon
(Faculty, St Olaf College, MN) “The Plague of "Strange" Bodies: Contagion and Containment in the Queen's Masques.”
Robert Shimko
(Faculty, University of Texas Houston, TX) “The Writing of History in the Early Restoration.”
Arvind Adyanthaya
“Pathologizing Gilles: Discursive Bodies in Thomas-Simon Gueullette's Parades and 18th Century Parisian Fairground Spectacles.”
Natalya Baldyga
(Faculty, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL) “Political Bodies and Bodies Politic: The Actor as Contested Site of Cultural Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe.”
John Fletcher
(Faculty, Louisiana State University) “Common Stage, Contested Stage: Democratic Performance Activism in the USA.”
Megan Sanborn Jones
(Faculty, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT) “Rapists, Murderers and Turks; or, Mormon Subject Melodrama and American Culture, 1845-1900.”
Scott A. Magelssen
(Faculty, Bowling Green University, OH) "Undoing History-Authenticity, Tourism, and the Precise and Vulgar Continuum: The Staging of the Past Through Performance and Display as Historiographic Operation at Living History Museums in the United States."
Alan Sikes
(Faculty, Illinois State University) "The Performing Subject: Identity and Representation from Versailles to Versace.”
Patricia A. Ybarra
(Faculty, Brown University) "Staging Tlaxcala: From Cite of Complicity to Site of Resistance."
Matthew D. Wagner
(Faculty, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) "Towards a new Shakespearean Historiography: Mapping the Space of Shakespeare.”
Anja Klöck
(Faculty, Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Leipzig, Germany.) "SPEED dissolving TIME and SPACE: Technologies of Representation and the Women of Italian Futurist Theatre."
Leigh Clemons
(Faculty, Louisiana State University) "Volk," "Nation," "Degeneration”: Avant-Garde Theatre and German Cultural Order, 1909-1937."