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Head of Theatre History and Performance Studies
Professor, Theatre History
Related Research
- Scott Venters, “Embodiment and Ontological Fragility in the Fabrication of Early Royal Society Taxa,” in Identity, Culture, and the Science of Performance: From the Lab to the Streets, eds. Vivian Appler and Merdith Conti (Bloomsbury, 2022 – Forthcoming)
- Venters, Scott. The (Im)mediate Animal: An Anti-theatrical History of Interspecies Entanglements in Enlightenment Transactions, 1640-1800. 2021. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- ““A Weak Woman Beat Them”: Constructing Feminine Leadership and Resistance” Panelist, Mid-American Theatre Conference, Chicago, IL. 8 March 2020
- “Arousing the Empathic Gendered Subject: Transpecies Domesticity and Sentient Spectacles in the Early Enlightenment,” Animal Engagements, ASTR Forum, La Jolla, CA, November, 2018.
- "The Revelation of the Sensible: Theatre and Science in Seventeenth-Century Revolutionary England," ATHE, Boston, August, 2018
- "Beyond Hybrid Bodies in the Early Enlightenment Laboratory: Epistemological Formations as Interspecies Constitutions," From the Curious to the Quantum Working Group, ASTR, Atlanta, November, 2017
- "(Gestural Ontologies): Simian Sociality in the Production of Early Modern Universals," Living with Animals, EKU, Richmond, March, 2017
- "(Gestural Ontologies): Simian Sociality in the Production of Early Modern Universals," Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), Houston, March, 2017
- "The Violent Spatializing of Time: Colonizing Utopian Imaginaries in Seventeenth-Century Barbados," International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, 2016.
- "'The ransome of Prides fury': The Executions as the Hope Bear-Garden and the (De)Mythologization of the English Commonwealth." New England Theatre Journal 26 (2015): 1-20.