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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
Latest News
- Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (PhD 2010) Awarded Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from AAUW (October 8, 2014)
- Celebrity and Its Discontents - Odai Johnson (September 30, 2014)
- Meet Our Incoming Graduate Students (September 10, 2014)
- Associate Professor Scott Magelssen Discusses Forthcoming Book (March 19, 2014)
- UW Rocks ASTR (January 14, 2014)
Related Research
- 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.
- Heiner, Cate. Affective Ambiguity: The Specifics of Staging Trauma and Negotiating Empathy. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Viewers in Distress: Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the 21stCentury
- Zimmerman, Shadow. Mediating Black Modernisms: Charles S Johnson and His Circle, Printing Opportunity and Performing the New Negro. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- 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.
- Stefka Mihaylova, "Liveness Redux: Radical Performance, Television, and the Truthfulness of Illusion in Bloody Mess by Forced Entertainment," Contemporary Theatre Review 30.3 (2020): 340-356.
- “Courts of Love and Performing Religious Justice.” Panelist, American Theatre in Higher Education Annual Conference, Detroit MI (Remote), July 2020.
- Scott Magelssen and Shelby Lunderman. “Slow Down or Else: The Perils of Rapidity on Academics’ Mental Health.” In Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education, edited by Jonathan Chambers and Stephanie Gearhart. Routledge, 2019.
- Seifert, Kristin. Brecht between Mediums: Reevaluating Epic Theory in Theatre and Film. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.