Professor, Head of PhD Program, Theater HistoryPh. D. University of Texas, AustinMFA University of UtahBA University of Utah206-543-4183odai@uw.eduHUT 109Fields of Interest 17th Century 18th Century Ancient Architecture Historiography History Performance Studies Theater History Background and ExperienceSummaryProfessor in theatre history and head of the Ph.D. program, Odai Johnson took his MFA from the University of Utah and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His articles have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, New England Theatre Journal, Theatre Symposium and the Virginia Magazine of History as well as contributions to numerous anthologies. His books include Rehearsing the Revolution (University of Delaware 1999), The Colonial American Stage: A Documentary Calendar (AUP: 2001) and Absence and Memory on the Colonial American Stage (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005). He is currently finishing a work on classical theatre, titled Ruins. Professor Johnson holds the Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Professorship in the Arts. Faculty Spotlight: Odai Johnson Research & Creative Work Representative Research Odai Johnson. Absence and Memory in Colonial American Theatre. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Odai Johnson and William J. Burling. The Colonial American Stage: A Documentary Calendar. Associated University Presses, 2001. Odai Johnson. Rehearsing the Revolution: Radical Performance, Radical Politics in the English Restoration. U of Delaware Press, 2000. Odai Johnson. Ruins: Classical Theatre and the Archeology of Memory. Book in progress. (In progress) Representative Conferences "Drowning Playwrights, and Other State Incursions into Genre," Mid-America Theatre Conference 2014, History Symposium #25. "First Person, Plural," You Are Here: The Post-Thematic Conference, The American Society for Theatre Research, November 2013. Research Advised Elizabeth Coen. "Staging Theater to Realize a Nation: The Development of German National Theater in the 18th Century." Diss. U of Washington. Gibson A. Cima. "Postconflict Nostalgia: Postapartheid South African Theatre, 1990-2010." Diss. U of Washington, 2012. David U. Garfinkle. "The rise and fall of the passions of Elizabeth Barry, reading Restoration figures of the first modern actress in the civic legacy of Sir William D'Avenant." Diss. U of Washington, 2010. Derek Samuel Davidson. "Martyrdom as a performance tradition." Diss. U of Washington, 2008. Scott W. Cole. "Traumatized performance: Antebellum Methodist camp meetings and the re-making of the American frontier." Diss. U of Washington, 2007. James M. Fitzmorris. "Summoning the spectacle." Diss. U of Washington, 2004. Scott Venters - The (Im)mediate Animal: An Anti-theatrical History of Interspecies Entanglements in Enlightenment Transactions, 1640-1800 (In progress) Jacob Hutchison. "Satirical Activism: Citizenship and satire in 21st century performance." Diss. U of Washington, in progress. (In progress) Sebastian Trainor. "Ubu's Moment: Lost Histories of a Fin-de-Siecle Avant Garde Theatre." Diss. U of Washington, in progress. (In progress) School of Drama Productions and Events Performing Arts Lecture Series: Odai Johnson - Oct 7 2014 - 7:30pm Courses Taught Autumn 2016 DRAMA 371 A: Theatre History I DRAMA 575 A: Seminar In Theatre History: Ruins: Classical Theatre and the Archeology of Memory Summer 2016 A-term DRAMA 250 A: Acting Skills For Everyday Life: Presence: Voice, Speech, and Persona for Public Professionals Spring 2016 DRAMA 572 A: Problems In Theatre History Research Summer 2015 A-term DRAMA 250 A: Acting Skills For Everyday Life: Presence: Voice, Speech, and Persona for Public Professionals Winter 2015 DRAMA 494 A: Special Studies In Theatre And Drama: Social History of Acting DRAMA 576 A: Seminar In Theatre History: The Baroque Autumn 2014 DRAMA 371 A: Theatre History I DRAMA 575 A: Seminar In Theatre History: History, Memory, Narrative, and other Disorders Spring 2014 DRAMA 564 A: Theatre Studies: History, Theory, Criticism: Ten Companies of the Twentieth Century DRAMA 600 B: Independent Study Or Research Winter 2014 DRAMA 572 A: Problems In Theatre History Research: Conversations with Antiquity Autumn 2013 DRAMA 371 A: Theatre History I DRAMA 571 A: Problems In Theatre History Research: Ruins: Classical Theatre and the Archaeology of Memory Spring 2013 DRAMA 600 B: Independent Study Or Research Winter 2013 DRAMA 494 A: Special Studies In Theatre And Drama: Ten Great Companies, One Great Century DRAMA 577 A: Seminar In Theatre History: The Fervent Yeares: the making of Elizabethan theatre Autumn 2012 DRAMA 374 A: History Of Greek And Roman Theatre DRAMA 576 A: Seminar In Theatre History: Reading the Long 18th Century Summer 2012 A-term DRAMA 494 A: Special Studies In Theatre And Drama: Shakespeare Intensive Spring 2012 DRAMA 441 A: Beginning Playwriting DRAMA 499 C: Undergraduate Research: Plays you know you need Winter 2012 DRAMA 572 A: Problems In Theatre History Research: The Baroque Autumn 2011 DRAMA 571 A: Problems In Theatre History Research News & Press Related News Performing Arts Lecture Series (October 7, 2014) Celebrity and Its Discontents - Odai Johnson (September 30, 2014) Training Scholars - Interview with Professor Odai Johnson (April 9, 2014) UW Rocks ASTR (January 14, 2014) An Early American Theater Lost . . . and Found (April 21, 2005) Share: Print PDF
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