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Assistant Professor, Theatre History and Performance Studies
Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professor
Associate Professor, Theatre Theory and Criticism
Latest News
- The 5th Avenue Theatre's David Armstrong to join UW Drama faculty with new course: The Broadway Musical (February 8, 2019)
- Simon Tran (BA '16) reflects on the Civil Rights Pilgrimage (March 28, 2016)
- Professor Valerie Curtis-Newton Featured on KUOW (February 10, 2016)
- Kathy Hsieh: director, actress, and inspirational leader (February 8, 2016)
- Alumni Spotlight: Ben Gonio, PATP '05 (January 7, 2016)
Related Research
- Villiers, Eric. "More Than Just a Fuck." A Year in Black Art, issue 6 (2023): 44-49.
- Viewers in Distress: Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the 21stCentury
- “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).
- “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.
- “An uncharted persistence: Alternative minoritarian theater in austere Chicago,” in Theater and Cultural Politics for a New World, edited by Chinua Thelwell. London: Routledge, 2017: 205-229.
- Scott Magelssen, “White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, The Kon-Tiki Museum, and the Racial Theory of Polynesian Origins.” TDR: The Drama Review 60.1 [T229] (Winter, 2016).
- Panelist, Seattle GeekGirlCon, "History Has Its Eyes on Hamilton: The Musical, The History, and the Impact," October 2016
- "The Violent Spatializing of Time: Colonizing Utopian Imaginaries in Seventeenth-Century Barbados," International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, 2016.
- "DADA’s Queer Ontologies: Tzara, Ball, and Pluriversal Politics at Cabaret Voltaire," Mid-America Theatre Conference, March 2016