Ashley Bellet, Ph.D. student:
Modern theatre aesthetics, material culture studies, object oriented ontology, and visual representations of posthumanism on stage
Holly Berkowitz, Ph.D. student: performances of death, mourning, motherhood, and race in twentieth century American drama with a focus on black feminist performance
Erin Briddick, Ph.D. student:
Performance Studies, postmodern performance, walking performance, communication philosophy and theory
Scott Campbell, Ph.D. student: traditional music performance, folklore in theatre
Zoe Cohen, Ph.D. student: mid-century performances of gender, sexuality, style, and vulnerability
Anna Gebarski, Ph.D. student: identity, queerness, ecology in contemporary Latinx performance art and visual cultures.
Scott Harman, Ph.D. student: Theory & History of acting, cognitive studies, theatre historiography, The Group Theatre
Jacob Hellman. Ph.D. student: critical cultural depictions of the Israeli Defense Forces on the Israeli stage
Quanda Johnson, Ph.D. student: diasporic African performance, collage aesthetics, performance practice as research
Joshua Kelly, Ph.D. student: performance philosophy, political theatre, communist theatre, post-war British drama, and queer theatre.
Dong-Uk Kim, Ph.D. student: 20th century American drama, African American Drama, African Drama, Caribbean Drama, and minority group and individual identities in 20th and 21st century works of drama
Megan Marsh-McGlone, Ph.D. student: Relational art, avant-garde performance, surrealism, curation, lactation, medical science, and new motherhood in performance
Claire Mason, Ph.D. student // TFY Specialization // Northern Ireland, Ulster Unionism and Loyalism, riots, cultural history, the politics of performance and the performance of politics, and performing ‘Britishness’
Molly Mattaini, Ph.D. student: drama for and with children on the Autism spectrum
Sunghee Pak, Ph.D. student: Rewritings and adaptations of Early Modern English Drama, Postcolonialism, Contemporary/Modern British and American Drama, Contemporary World Theatre
Amber Palmer, Ph.D. student: Theater for new media, theater for young audiences, contemporary drama, queer theory and avant garde theater.
Lily Shell, MA student: dramaturgy through design, devised and collaborative theatre, and theatre for social justice
Steffen Silvis Ph.D. Student: Midcentury American Modernism, Twentieth Century theatre and drama of Central and Eastern Europe, and Performance Studies
Rini Tarafder, Ph.D. student: urban theatre in India, cosmopolitanism, postcolonial theatre, music in theatre, globalization and gender
Bridgett Vanderhoof, Ph.D. student: Theatre for Youth, the Miss America Scholarship Organization, Russian theatre for young adults, costume design, and digital media design
Dan Van Note, MA student: postmodern dance, drag, and endurance sports
Gabriela C. Yepes-Rossel, Ph.D. student: Andean syncretic drama and performance, gender, colonial studies