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Head of Theatre History and Performance Studies
Professor, Theatre History
Executive Director
Floyd U. Jones Family Endowed Chair
Professor, Theatre History
Assistant Professor, Theatre History and Performance Studies
Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professor
Associate Professor, Theatre Theory and Criticism
Part-time Lecturer, Theatre for Youth
Latest News
Remembering Professor Emeritus Barry Bates Witham (Update! Celebration of Life Service information below)
(January 5, 2023)Performance Studies Research Group Fosters Cross-disciplinary Conversations
(May 7, 2015)Scholarship, Community, and Truth—Samer Al-Saber (PhD ’13), Alumni Spotlight
(April 13, 2015)Building Connections Between Theatre and Museums - Scott Magelssen
(March 12, 2015)Coming Up in Winter Quarter
(December 1, 2014)
Related Research
- Scott Magelssen. “Actors as Surrogate Sufferers? Toward a Model for Well-Being in Acting Training.” Humanities and Human Flourishing Project. Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Merhi, Mona. Space Maneuverings in Post-Uprising Syrian Performances: Scarring Space and Language. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Heiner, Cate. Affective Ambiguity: The Specifics of Staging Trauma and Negotiating Empathy. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- “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.
- “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).
- 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)
- Cortes Viharo, Monica. Trauma Drama: The Translocal Legibility of Trauma and Utopia in Contemporary Feminist Performance. 2021. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- “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.