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"Ultimately, my decision to come to UW had everything to do with the people. The support system here is incredible. They actually care about me, my research, and what I want to do with my career. They said that they would be here for us at every point along the way, and it has turned out to be completely true." - Shelby Lunderman, UW Drama PhD, class of 2020

MEET OUR PH.D. FACULTY

Scott Magelssen
Head of Theatre History and Performance Studies

MA: University of Minnesota
Ph.D.: University of Minnesota
Recent publications: Simming: Participatory Performance and the Making of Meaning (University of Michigan Press), Enacting History (University of Alabama Press), Performing Flight: From the Barnstormers to Space Tourism (University of Michigan Press)
Fields of Interest: Museum Studies/Museology, live simulation and performance in tourism, business, and the miltary.

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Odai Johnson
Professor
Theatre History

Stefka Mihaylova
Assistant Professor, Theatre Theory and Criticism
Odai Johnson
                  
MFA: University of Utah
Ph.D.: University of Texas at Austin
Recent publications: London in a Box (Iowa 2017), Ruins: Classical Theatre and the Archeology of Memory (University of Michigan), Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theatre, Oxford Handbook of The Georgian Theatre, the Oxford Handbook of American Drama (contributor)
Fields of Interest: 17th & 18th century, Ancient, Architecture, Historiography, Baroque, Early Modern, Colonial America		 MA: Central European University, Hungary
Ph.D.: Northwestern University
Recent publications: Casting Stare-able Bodies: Mabou Mines' Dollhouse (ASTR), Whose Performance is it Anyway? Performed Criticism as Feminist Strategy (New Theatre Quarterly)
Fields of Interest: Contemporary American and British Theatre, Gender and racial aspects of spectatorship, 20th century, Bulgarian, Dramaturgy
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Jasmine Mahmoud, Assistant Professor

Jasmine Mahmoud
MFA: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU
Ph.D.: Northwestern University
Recent publications: Makeshift Chicago Stages: A Century of Theater and Performance (Northwestern University Press, 2021), Space: Postdramatic Geography in Post-Collapse Seattle (Methuen Drama Bloomsbury, 2019), An uncharted persistence: Alternative minoritarian theater in austere Chicago (Routledge, 2017), Right to the Artistic City: Performing Engagements Beyond Austerity in Post-Collapse Chicago (Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines (French Review of American Studies) 2016), Brooklyn’s Experimental Frontiers: A Performance Geography (The Drama Review 2014), Black love? Black love!: All Aboard the presence of punk in Seattle’s NighTraiN (Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 2012)
Fields of Interest: 21st Century Aesthetics, Arts Management, Critical Theory, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Museum Studies/Museology, Performance Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Visual Culture
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