Scott Magelssen (he/him/his)

Scott Magelssen is Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professor, Head of Theatre History and Performance Studies, and Undergraduate Coordinator in the School of Drama. He holds a PhD in Theatre History, Theory, and Dramatic Literature from the University of Minnesota, and teaches Theatre History and Performance Studies. His most recent book, Performing Flight: From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2020. He is co-editing a collection of essays entitled Enveloping Worlds: Toward a Discourse of Immersive Performance with Elizabeth Hunter (Washington University in St. Louis), under contract with Michigan. And he's working on a book about spectators' encounters with dinosaurs starting in the nineteenth century. Scott is the author of Simming: Participatory Performance and the Making of Meaning (2014) and Living History Museums (2007), and co-editor of Enacting History (2011), Theatre Historiography: Critical Interventions (2010), and Querying Difference in Theatre History (2007). He co-edits the website theater-historiography.org with Henry Bial.