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Professor, Theatre History - Assistant Professor, Theatre History and Performance Studies
Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professor - Associate Professor, Theatre Theory and Criticism
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Related Research
- “Dinosaurs, Race, and the Staging of Civilization: Lileana Blain-Cruz’s revival of The Skin of Our Teeth at Lincoln Center.” Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), Madison, 2024.
- Trainor, Sebastian. Ubu's Moment: Lost Histories of a Fin-de-Siecle Avant Garde Theatre. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Scott Magelssen. “Actors as Surrogate Sufferers? Toward a Model for Well-Being in Acting Training.” Humanities and Human Flourishing Project. Oxford University Press, 2023.
- 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).
- Heiner, Catherine. "Casting and Creating Importance: Complicating Race and Gender in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest." Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), Cleveland, OH, 3 March 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)
- Monson, Duygu. Replacing the Image of the Ottoman Turk: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Turquerie as Resistance. 2021. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Rogus, Amanda M. “A Play by Any Other Name Would Sound as Sweet: Paleographical Proof of Mispronunciation in Henslowe’s Diary” - Mid-America Theatre Conference, Chicago, IL. (March 2020)