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Assistant Professor, Theatre History and Performance Studies
Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professor
Associate Professor, Theatre Theory and Criticism
Latest News
- Professor Valerie Curtis-Newton Featured on KUOW (February 10, 2016)
- Valerie Curtis-Newton discusses race, the power of the maid, and playwright Alice Childress (September 4, 2013)
Related Research
- Viewers in Distress: Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the 21stCentury
- Rizzardi, Jonathan M. “The Andreia of Grieving: Rehearsing Heroic Grief on the Ancient Athenian Stage.” New England Theatre Journal 33, no 1 (2022).
- ““A Weak Woman Beat Them”: Constructing Feminine Leadership and Resistance” Panelist, Mid-American Theatre Conference, Chicago, IL. 8 March 2020
- “Authentic Sensations: Female Bodies and Creating Spiritual Affect.” Panelist, American Theatre in Higher Education Annual Conference, Detroit MI (Remote), July 2020.
- “Courts of Love and Performing Religious Justice.” Panelist, American Theatre in Higher Education Annual Conference, Detroit MI (Remote), July 2020.
- "Seeing the Light: Inspiration, Femininity and Religion in Tim Slover’s Virtue." Ecumenica, vol. 12, no. 2, Dec. 2019
- “Sweet Touch: The Sexuality and Power of Carmen in Simon Stephens’ Carmen Disruption.” Presenter, Comparative Drama Conference (CDC) Annual Conference, Orlando, 4 April 2018.
- “Arousing the Empathic Gendered Subject: Transpecies Domesticity and Sentient Spectacles in the Early Enlightenment,” Animal Engagements, ASTR Forum, La Jolla, CA, November, 2018.
- Scott Venters, "'Better to burn': The Prima Mimarum and Political Friction in Fourth-Century Antioch," Theatre Journal (March, 2018).
- Finque, Susan. Re-story(y)ing Theatre History in the Americas: Professional Players and the Callao Contract of 1599. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.