Introduction

Program Description

Graduate Faculty

Class Schedule

Graduate Group Faculty - Performance Studies

The Graduate Group in Performance Studies is responsible for the Ph.D. program and is comprised of faculty with appointments in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies which is responsible for the undergraduate program, as well as faculty from a range of departments and disciplines with scholarly and teaching interests in the field.

CORE FACULTY:

Brandi Wilkins Catanese, Assistant Professor, Departments of African American Studies and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Ph.D. Stanford University; African-American Drama and Theater.

Catherine M. Cole, Professor, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Ph.D. Northwestern University. African Studies; Gender Studies; Disability Studies; Ethnography; Human Rights and Transitional Justice.

Vasudha Dalmia, Professor and Chair, Department of South and South East Asian Studies; Ph.D. Jawaharlal Nehru University; Hindi Drama and other Indian Theater traditions; Brecht.

Peter Glazer, Professor, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Ph.D. Northwestern University; Directing; Adaptation; Performance Theory; 20th century American Theater; Commemorative Performance.

Mel Gordon, Professor, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Ph.D. New York University; Modern and Contemporary European Theater; Popular entertainment.

Mark Griffith, Professor, Departments of Classics and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Ph.D. Cambridge University; Classical drama and performance; Greek and Latin literature.

Shannon Jackson, Professor and Chair, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Professor, Department of Rhetoric; Ph.D. Northwestern University; Performance Studies; Contemporary theater; American cultural history and Performance Historiography; Adaptation.

Laura E. Pérez, Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies; Ph.D. Harvard University; Post-1965 U.S. Latina/o Visual, Performance, and Literary Arts; Feminist, "Minority," Post-Colonial, and Cultural Studies theories.

Miryam Sas, Associate Professor, Departments of East Asian Languages and Comparative Literature; Ph.D. Yale University; 20th century poetry; Japanese Experimental Theater and Dance; Memory and Trauma; Mass Media and Cultural Studies; Film.

Kaja Silverman, Professor, Department of Rhetoric and Film Studies; Ph.D. Brown University; phenomenology, psychoanalysis, photography, time-based visual art, feminist theory, post-structuralist theory, queer studies, masculinity, and theories of "race."

Mary Ann Smart, Associate Professor, Department of Music; Ph.D. Cornell University; 19th century opera; women in opera; feminist approaches to opera; the role of gesture in opera.

Shannon Steen, Assistant Professor, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Ph.D. Stanford University; performance and critical race studies (especially the intersection of African and Asian American histories), American Studies, globalization and American urban development, and post/modernisms.

Trinh Minh-ha, Professor, Department of Women's Studies; Feminist Theory; Film Theory and production; Comparative Literary and Art Theory; Cultural Politics; Third World Arts and Politics.

Sophie Volpp, Assistant Professor, Departments of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures; Ph.D. Harvard Univsersity; classical Chinese performance, Chinese literature of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, history of performance, gender theory, the history of sexuality, and the representation of material culture.

Alexei Yurchak, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology; Ph.D. Duke University; theories of discourse, power and performance, the politics of aesthetics, irony and ideology, contemporary media, Russian informal art, Soviet state socialism and postsocialism, cities and urban space.

AFFILIATED FACULTY:

Charles Briggs, Department of Anthropology, is the Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor in Folklore. Focus on jokes, proverbs, ritual, folk art, and narrative genres from Latino/a communities in the Southwestern U.S. and in Latin America.

Judith Butler, Professor, Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature; Ph.D. Yale University; Performance and Identity.

Dru Dougherty, Professor and Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Ph.D. Harvard University; Spanish drama, especially of the early 20th century.

Joe Goode, Professor, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; BFA, Virginia Commonwealth University; choreography and interdisciplinary performance.

Anton Kaes, Professor, Department of German and Film Studies; Ph.D. Stanford University; modern German theater (Expressionism, Brecht; and the theater of the 1920s); postmodernist theater and film; the relationship between theater and film; theory of film, critical Theory, and Cultural Studies.

John Lie, Professor, Department of Sociology; Dean of International and Area Studies; Ph.D. Harvard University; social theory, political economy, Korean diaspora.

Affiliated Faculty: Affiliated Faculty will serve on examination and dissertation committees as "outside" members. They may teach crosslisted courses in the program and are invited to all Graduate Group events. Affiliated Faculty are recommended to the Graduate Dean for appointment to the Graduate Group in Performance studies.

Core Faculty: Core Faculty have the responsibilities and privileges of Affiliated Faculty. They may be asked to crosslist courses in the program. In addition, they may direct dissertations and may serve periodically on the Executive Committee (which sets policy, conducts admissions, and reviews student progress). Core Faculty regularly attend Performance Studies program events--the welcoming reception, Lab Run, the spring lectures by Ph.D. students in advance of their qualifying exams. They constitute the voting faculty of the Group, and are recommended to the Graduate Dean for appointment to the Graduate Group in Performance Studies.