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Head of Theatre History and Performance Studies
Professor, Theatre History
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- Problematic Simulations - Scott Magelssen (May 5, 2014)
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- “It all Comes Round Again: Immersive 1950s Simulations as Reminiscence Therapy.” Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), Cleveland, 2022.
- Scott Magelssen. “Dinosaurs, Racial Anxiety, and Curatorial Intervention: Whiteness and Performative Historiography in the Museum.” Special Issue on Theatre Historiography, ed. Michal Kobialka. Pamietnik Teatralny 70.4 (2022).
- Megan E. Geigner, Stuart J. Hecht, and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud, co-editors. Makeshift Chicago Stages: A Century of Theater and Performance. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021.
- “The Character of Nostalgia: Meaning, Yearning, and Simulations of the Recent Past.” Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), Chicago, 2020.
- Performing Flight: From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.
- “Performance, Flight, and the 9/11 Memorial & Museum,” American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). Arlington, 2019.
- 2018 Theatre History Symposium of MATC (Mid-America Theatre Conference) in Milwaukee, WI Panel: The Upside Downs: Mobile Theatres, Confinement, and Parallel StagesChair: Robert Shimko, University of Houston
- “Performing the American Astronaut: From Fighter Pilot to Cold Warrior.” Innovation Series. University of Houston. March, 2017.
- Axel Andersson and Scott Magelssen, “Performing a Viking History of America: The 1893 Voyage and Display of a Viking Longship at the Columbus Quadricentennial.” Theatre Journal 69.2 (June 2017), pp. 175-195.
- 2017 American Asociation for Theatre Research Conference (ASTR), "Extraordinary Bodies." Working Group: "Global South"