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Head of Theatre History and Performance Studies
Professor, Theatre History
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- Remembering Professor Emeritus Barry Bates Witham (Update! Celebration of Life Service information below) (January 5, 2023)
- Mary Gates Scholars x 3 (April 11, 2016)
- Drama PhD Students Delve into Medieval Manuscript Pages in UW Special Collections (April 5, 2016)
- Alumni & Faculty News, Winter 2016 (January 7, 2016)
- PhD Candidate Christopher Goodson Interviews Playwright Diane Rodriguez (September 14, 2015)
Related Research
- “Sighting Segregation Black aesthetics and the materiality of art in St. Louis and Ferguson,” in The Material World of Modern Segregation edited by Iver Bernstein and Heidi Kolk, 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).
- Li, Weiyu. The Black is the New Red: Performances of Racial Blackness in the Maoist China. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- 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.
- “Space: Postdramatic Geography in Post-Collapse Seattle,” in Postdramatic Theatre and Form, edited by Michael Shane Boyle, Matt Cornish, and Brandon Woolf. London: Methuen Drama Bloomsbury, 2019: 48-65.
- 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.
- London in a Box - Englishness and Theatre in Revolutionary America. University of Iowa Press.
- Elizabeth A. Osborne and Shelby Lunderman. ”This is the Dawning of the Age of the Online Course: Process, Practice, & Pageantry in Introduction to Theatre.” Mid-America Theatre Conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 17-20, 2016.