ATDS Experts List Below is the ATDS Experts List. If you are still
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ATDS Experts List Below is the ATDS Experts List. If you are still searching for another member for your dissertation committee, this resource may help. Please use the information these scholars have kindly provided in a thoughtful way. The areas of interest below include an extraordinary range of topics: Actor training, African American theatre, American Cultural Studies, Asian American theatre, Avant-Garde Drama, Chautauqua, Circus, Diasporic theatre, Dramaturgy, Early American Theatre, Federal Theatre Project, Feminist Theatre, Frontier theatre, Gay and Lesbian theatre history and performance, Gender and Performance, Intercultural Theatre, Jewish theatre, Labor Theatre, Latino theatre, Melodrama, Mexican Theatre, Minstrelsy, Modernism, Musical theatre, Playwrights and Directors (Glaspell, Fornes, Kushner, Mamet, Mee, Miller, O’Neill, Parks, Shepard, Treadwell, Valdez, Wasserstein, Wilder, Williams, Wilson), Political theatre, Popular Entertainments, Religion and Theatre, Theatre Historiography, Theatre for Young Audiences, Transnational Theatre, Vaudeville, and Women’s theatre. (You may want to use the terms provided above to search the list for experts who match your areas of interest.) NAMES INCLUDED (find contact information and areas of specialization below): Susan Abbotson Sarah Bay-Cheng Henry Bial Cheryl Black Annalisa Brugnoli Jonathan Chambers Alessandro Clericuzio Timothy D. Connors Scott W. Cole Mark Cosdon Scott T. Cummings J.K. Curry James Fisher John Frick Shawn-Marie Garrett Stuart Hecht Eileen Herrmann John Houchin Esther Kim Lee Jeanne Klein Lincoln Konkle Amelia Howe Kritzer Daniel Larner Jan Lewis Thomas Leuchtenmuller Landis Magnuson Kim Marra Alma Martinez Heather S. Nathans Sanja Nikcevic Elizabeth Osborne Barbara (Basia) Ozieblo Susan Harris Smith David Sauer Arvid Spoonberg Erik Viker Katherine Weiss CONTACT INFORMATION: John Frick Professor, Drama University of Virginia 434-924-8964 jwf8f@virginia.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Temperance Melodrama Moral Reform Melodrama City Mysteries Plays Theatre in 19TH Century New York Melodrama American Popular entertainments Heather S. Nathans Professor, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of Maryland Series Editor, Studies in Theatre History and Culture, University of Iowa Press President, American Society for Theatre Research (2012-2015) 301-405-6687 hnathans@umd.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Early American Theatre Early American Popular Entertainment Antebellum Theatre and Literature Shakespeare in 18th and 19th century America African American theatre and culture pre-1861 Jewish representations on the American stage, pre-1861 Katherine Weiss Assistant Professor, English East Tennessee State University 423-439-6626 weisk01@etsu.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Samuel Beckett Sam Shepard Sophie Treadwell Modern Irish Drama Modern British Drama Sarah Bay-Cheng Associate Professor of Theatre Director of Graduate Studies, Theatre University at Buffalo/SUNY (716) 645-0587 baycheng@buffalo.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Avant-Garde Theatre and Film Modern European Drama 20th c. American Drama Contemporary Performance Theatre and Media Digital Humanities Performance Historiography Henry Bial Associate Professor of Theatre and American Studies University of Kansas 785.864.4011 hbial@ku.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Jewish representation on the American stage and screen since 1900 Performance theory Religion and theatre Theatre Historiography Timothy D. Connors Professor of Theatre Central Michigan University Office/Voice: 989-774-3815 conno1td@cmich.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Late 19th/Early 20th Century American Theatre and Drama American Vaudeville (especially managers/management) Irish Theatre and Drama Lincoln Konkle Professor of English The College of New Jersey (609) 771-2346 konkleli@tcnj.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Thornton Wilder (novels as well as plays) Edward Albee Amelia Howe Kritzer Associate Professor, English University of St. Thomas 651-962-5883 ahkritzer@stthomas.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Caryl Churchill Contemporary British drama Early American theatre and drama Early American women dramatists Political theatre and drama Feminist theatre and drama Mark Cosdon Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies Allegheny College (814) 332-2304 mcosdon@allegheny.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION History of Popular Entertainments Pantomime Physical Theatre Circus Jonathan Chambers Associate Professor of Theatre Department of Theatre and Film Bowling Green State University 419 372-9618 jonathc@bgsu.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION American Theater and Drama between the World Wars Theatre and the political/cultural left Marxist and materialist theory Theatre and Modernism (early 20th century avant garde) Postmodern Theory/Theatre Actor Training (especially Michael Chekhov technique) Eileen Herrmann Adjunct Associate Professor Dominican University of California 415-257-0111 Giggi6000@aol.com AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION The drama of Eugene O'Neill Metaphor and Modern American Drama Elizabeth Osborne Associate Professor of Theatre Studies Florida State University 850-645-6858 BethOsborne@gmail.com AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Federal Theatre Project Dramaturgy American Theatre (Civil War through WWII) Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams Intersections of theatre and community Dr. Sanja Nikcevic (Croatia) Distinguished Professor, Drama Department, Academy of Art, University of Osijek Home address: Trnjanska cesta 37/1, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia tel 385 1 631 41 48 mob. 385 (0)98 955 9933 sanja.nikcevic@uaos.hr AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Contemporary American drama Contemporary European drama, Theatre criticism John H. Houchin Chair, Theare Department Boston College 617-552-0823 john.houchin.1@bc.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Censorship of the American Theatre African American Theatre and Culture in the 20th Century American Popular Entertainment in the 20th Century Pre World War II European Avant Garde Scott T. Cummings Associate Professor, Theatre Department Boston College 617-552-4614 scott.cummings@bc.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Contemporary American Drama (especially Maria Irene Fornes, Charles Mee, off-Off Broadway movement) American ensemble theaters (especially SITI Company) Dramaturgy and playwriting Resident Regional Theater movement David Sauer Professor, English Spring Hill College Mobile, AL 36608 251-380-4644 sauer@shc.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: David Mamet August Wilson Wendy Wasserstein Contemporary American Drama Drama in Performance Kim Marra Professor of Theatre Arts and American Studies University of Iowa 107 Theatre Building Iowa City, IA 52242-1705 office: (319) 353 2402 fax: (319) 335 3568 kim-marra@uiowa.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Homosexuality and lesbianism in American theatre history Impresarios and Actresses in American theatre history, 1865-1914 Late 19th century American acting training Feminist theatre historiography Animal Studies and American performance history Erik Viker Assistant Professor of Theatre and Technical Director Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA 17870 Telephone 570-372-4548 viker@susqu.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Production management Theatre operations and technology Stage management Technical theatre in liberal arts education Dr. Susan C. W. Abbotson Rhode Island College Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Drama sabbotson@ric.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Arthur Miller Tennessee Williams August Wilson African-American Drama Cheryl Black Associate Professor University of Missouri Columbia 573 882 0530 Blackc@missouri.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Women in Theatre Feminist theatre and drama Feminist criticism The Provincetown Players (esp. Susan Glaspell) African American theatre and drama (esp. early 20th c) Workers Theatre in the U.S. Acting/Acting Pedagogy Dramaturgy Stuart Hecht Professor of Theatre Boston College Hecht@bc.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION 20th century non-commercial Chicago theatre Hull-House and other settlement theatres Diasporic theatre American musical theatre Dramaturgy Jewish American Theatre J.K. Curry Associate Professor, Dept. of Theatre and Dance Wake Forest University (336) 758-3941 curryjk@wfu.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION 19th c. American theatre women theatre managers 19th and 20th c. American drama Landis K. Magnuson Professor of English Director, Anselmian Abbey Players Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH 03102-1310 603-641-7037 lmagnuso@anselm.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Chautauqua and Vaudeville Circle Stock Theatre Touring Repertoire Theatre Late 19th/Early 20th Century American Popular Entertainment and Culture Daniel Larner Professor of Theatre Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies Western Washington University 360 650-4908 Daniel.Larner@wwu.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Contemporary American Drama Dramatic Form and Structure Comedy, Tragedy, Tragicomedy Metaphor in Dramatic Structure Drama into Film James Fisher Professor of Theatre; Head, Department of Theatre The University of North Carolina at Greensboro 201 Taylor Building, Box 26170 Greensboro, NC 27402-6170 336-334-4112 ajfisher@uncg.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: American Theatre Tony Kushner Gay and Lesbian Theatre Musical theatre Scott W. Cole Assistant Professor, Theatre Bridgewater College 540-828-5687 scole@bridgewater.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: 19th Century American Theatre (Antebellum Period) Religion and Theatre Samuel Beckett Frontier Drama 20th Century American Avant-Garde Performance Richard Schechner and The Performance Group Herbert Blau and KRAKEN Jeanne Klein Associate Professor of Theatre University of Kansas 1530 Naismith Dr., 317 Murphy Hall Lawrence, KS 66045 785-864-5576 kleinj@ku.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Theatre for Young Audiences (18th c. through present) Children's plays, playwrights, and prose literature Audience reception studies Alessandro Clericuzio Associate Professor, American Literature University of Perugia, Italy alessandro.clericuzio@unipg.it AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION 20th century American and European drama Tennessee Williams Ethnic and queer studies in American drama Theatre and film Contemporary Italian theatre Jan Lewis Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre Wesleyan College 4760 Forsyth Rd. Macon, GA 31210 (478) 757-5249 jlewis@wesleyancollege.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Representations of Jewish Identity in American Theatre Wendy Wasserstein Sophie Tucker Gender and Performance Directing in Modern and Contemporary American Theatre Esther Kim Lee Associate Professor, Theatre University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 217-333-2893 kim32@illinois.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Asian American theatre Korean diaspora theatre and performance American theatre Ethnic theatre Intercultural theatre Transnational theatre Theatre and globalization Annalisa Brugnoli PhD, American Studies University of Venice (Italy) annalisa.brugnoli@yahoo.com AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Eugene O'Neill Modernism in American Drama Philosophical and psychoanalityc issues in American Drama (the Shadow, the Other, the "Medusation") Barbara (Basia) Ozieblo Professor of American Literature, Department of English Facultad de Filosofía y Letras University of Málaga, Spain 34 952 131795 ozieblo@uma.es AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Susan Glaspell American Women Dramatists Violence on stage Cognitive studies applied to theater Alma Martinez, M.F.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Pomona College Department of Theatre & Dance 300 East Bonita Ave. Claremont, CA 91711 909.607.4382 Alma.martinez@pomona.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Chicano/a Theatre Luis Valdez and El Teatro Campesino Latin American Political Theatre and Nuevo Teatro Popular (1965-1975) Contemporary Mexican Theatre Latinas in American Theatre Latina/o Images in Film Shawn-Marie Garrett Assistant Professor Barnard College, Columbia University 3009 Broadway New York, NY 10027 (212) 854-6863 sg488@columbia.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Suzan-Lori Parks Contemporary Performance European and American Theatrical Modernism Production Dramaturgy and Directing Susan Harris Smith Professor, English University of Pittsburgh shs1@pitt.edu AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Modern and Contemporary Drama American Cultural Studies (late 19th/early 20th centuries) Thomas Leuchtenmüller Independent Scholar +49-611-56579933 t.leuchtenmueller@t-online.de AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: August Wilson African-American Drama Arthur Miller Arvid Spoonberg Professor of English Valparaiso University 1400 Chapel Drive Valparaiso IN 36282 Editor/manager, Chicago Theatre History Project Editor/manager, blogs.valpo.edu/Midwestlit Member, Organizing Committee, Chicago Theatre Symposium 219-464-5100 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: 20th Century Chicago Theatre American Playwriting - organization, institutions, practices Artistic and Management Decisionmaking in the US Commercial Theatre Origins and Evolution of US Departments of Theatre Origins and Evolution of Non-Profit Theatre Organization British Productions of US Plays 1975-Present Anglo-Irish Theatre 1870-1945
