Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2013

Author(s): James Beekman Bush, Troy Matthew Lescher and Troy Battle
Source: Theatre Journal , May 2013, Vol. 65, No. 2 (May 2013), pp. 315-319
Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press

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 Doctoral Projects in Progress
in Theatre Arts, 2013

James Beekman Bush, Editor/Researcher

Troy Matthew Lescher, Associate Editor
Troy Battle, Associate Editor

This is the sixty-first annual report of dissertations in progress in theatre arts in the
United States. The entries contained in this report were gathered from those institutions
offering a doctoral degree in theatre or related fields. The accuracy of this report depends
largely on the cooperation of those faculty members who submitted complete and timely
information. By compiling this data, we seek to inform the greater theatre community of
the diverse research projects currently underway across various universities and disciplines.

This report lists (in order) the doctoral student's name, dissertation title, institution,
academic department, faculty supervisor, and projected year of completion. Dissertation
topics are arranged in two parts: in part 1, topics are listed first geographically, and sec
ondarily by time periods; and part 2 provides additional divisions for those projects that
are not easily classified within geographic or historical parameters, but conform to other
emerging areas of contemporary research.

A request for submissions to the 2014 edition will be mailed in October 2013. Please
contact the editor ([email protected]) if an institution is not already receiving the annual
call for submissions.

My associate editors and I are grateful for the efforts of all those who have contributed
to this annual report. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the Texas Tech
University Department of Theatre and Dance and its chair, Mark Charney, for sponsoring
this endeavor.

James Beekman Bush ([email protected]) has a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary fine arts and experimental psy
cho fogy from Texas Tech University. His research interests include creative and artistic personality profiling,
the adoption of Viewpoints for survivor therapy, and the use of "open sesame" scenes far director training.

Troy Matthew Lescher ([email protected]) is a doctoral candidate at Texas Tech University. His research
interests include voice/movement for the actor, clown performance, and circus history.

Troy Battle ([email protected]) is an MFA student in arts administration at Texas Tech University. His
research interests include arts administration, twentieth-century German playwriting, and Bunraku puppetry.

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PART I and Space. University of Pittsburgh. Theatre Arts.

Lisa Jackson-Schebetta. 2014.
AFRICA Phillips, Chelsea. "Carrying All Before Her": Preg
nancy and Performance on the British Stage in the
Seleem, Amany. Achieving Political Goals under the
Long Eighteenth Century, 1688-1807. Ohio State
Guise of Religion in Egyptian Theatre. Ohio State
University. Theatre. Lesley Ferris. 2013.
University. Theatre. Lesley Ferris. 2013.
Nineteenth Century
BULGARIA
Rosell, Carla. "Do Feet Have Mouths?" Imaginings
of Slander in Early Modern England. University of
Blush, Robert O. The Theatre-Auteur in Post-Totali
Illinois. English. Lori Humphrey Newcomb. 2015.
tarian Bulgaria. University of Colorado, Boulder.
Theatre and Dance. Oliver Gerland. 2013. Stahl, Megan. Female Playwrights and Managers at
the Britannia Theatre, London. Tufts University.
CANADA Drama. Natalya Baldyga. 2014.

Burelle, Julie. Encounters on Contested Lands: Na Century

Twenty-first
Harmon,
tive American Performances of Sovereignty and Rand. Site-based Theatre of Twenty-first
Century United Kingdom: Conceptualizing Audi
Nationhood in Quebec. University of California,
ence Experience. University of Colorado, Boulder.
San Diego. Theatre and Dance. Emily Roxworthy.
2014. Theatre and Dance. Oliver Gerland. 2013.

Rollie, Emily. Taking the Stage: Gender, National

GERMANY
ity, and the Work of Canadian Women Theatre
Directors. University of Missouri. Theatre. Cheryl Achen, Monica. The Politics of Primitivism in
Black. 2013.
German Expressionist Drama, 1907-1920. Yale
University. Drama. Elinor Fuchs. 2013.
CHINA
Cornish, Matthew. Last Stop, Germania: Uses and
Representations of History in the German Theater.
Yang, Ming. Kunqu "New Aesthetics" and Their
Yale University. Drama. Elinor Fuchs. 2013.
Relationship to the Third Revitalization of Kunqu.
University of Hawaii, Manoa. Theatre and Lichtenberg,
Dance. Drew Arthur. Die Piscatorbühne: The
Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak. 2014. 1927-28 Season and the Roots of Epic Theater.
Yapp, Hentyle. Affecting Form, Imagination, and Yale University. Drama. James Leverett. 2013.
Animation in Contemporary Chinese PerforShaw, Jennifer Louise Jude. Up-Staging Itself: Five
mance Art. University of California, Berkeley. Self-Reflexive German Romantic Plays with
Performance Studies. Shannon Jackson. 2014. an Introduction. Yale University. Drama. Paul
Walsh. 2013.
ENGLAND
INDIA

Medieval/Renaissance Bannerji, Arnab. Setting the Stage: A Materialist Se

miotic
Coker-Durso, Lauren. Metatheatricality and "Dis Analysis of Contemporary Bengali Theatre.
University
ability Drag": Performing Bodily Difference on of Georgia. Theatre and Film Studies.
Farley Richmond. 2014.
the Renaissance Stage. Saint Louis University.
Sara Van Den Berg. 2013. Shankar, Karin. Contemporary Performance and
Hunter, Matthew. The Pursuit of Style in Visual
ShakeCulture in India. University of California,
Berkeley.
spearean Drama. Yale University. English. David Performance Studies. Shannon Jackson.
2014.
Scott Kastan. 2015.

Kamminga-Peck, Hadley. Using the Doctrine of the IRELAND

King's Two Bodies to Interpret Elizabethan and
Jacobean Drama. University of Colorado, Boulder.
Coffey, Fiona. From Troubles to Peace: Northern
Theatre and Dance. Oliver Gerland. 2014. Irish Women Playwrights in Transition, 1980
2010. Tufts University. Drama. Barbara Wallace
Restoration/Eighteenth Century Grossman. 2013.
Boze, Cassandra. "Drunk, Very Drunk at Your
Flood, Michael. The Hearts of the People: Irish
Service": The Function of Drunks in Eighteenth Dramaturgy Beyond Colonialism, Violence, and
Century Drama. Auburn University. English. Locale. Texas Tech University. Theatre and Dance.
Paula Backscheider. 2014. Mark Charney. 2013.
O'Rourke, Deirdre. Restoring the British World: Em Good, Kristi. "Blown Off the Road of Life by
bodying Stuart Surrogation through Performance History's Hungry Breezes": Sebastian Barry as

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Therapist and Witness. University of Pittsburgh. M annex, Colin. The Incalculable Scope and Invis
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Hill, Christopher. "We've All to Grow Old": Repre the United States, 1868-74. Yale Drama. Marc
sentations of Aging and Senescence on the Celtic Robinson. 2014.
Tiger Irish Stage. Ohio State University. Theatre. Ricks, Omar. "Beyond This Narrow Now": On the
Joy Reilley. 2013. Ethics of Black Political Desire. University of
California, Berkeley. Performance Studies. Brandi
ITALY Catanese. 2014.

Walkup, Michael. Translations of ContemporaryNineteenth/Twentieth Centuries

Italian Drama. Yale University. Drama. Paul
Hatch, Christopher J. The Effects of Absinthe on
Walsh. 2014.
Theatre in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth

JAPAN
Centuries. Indiana University. Theatre and
Drama. Ronald Wainscott. 2016.

Browne, Jyana S. Creating a Public: Love Suicide

on the Osaka Stage, 1703-1722. University of Twentieth Century
Washington. Drama. Thomas Postlewait and Aliano, Kelly. Ridiculous Geographies: Mapping the
Paul Atkins. 2013. Theatre of the Ridiculous as Radical Aesthetics.
The Graduate Center/CUNY. Theatre. James
MEXICO Wilson. 2016.

Campbell, Thomas Michael. Alcoholism on the

Salinas, Roén. Choreographing Borderlands: Chica
American Stage: De-Stigmatizing Socially Con
nas /os, Dance, and the Performance of Identity.
structed Depictions of the Alcoholic through Per
University of Texas at Austin. Theater and Dance.
formance. Southern Illinois University. Theater.
Debora Paredez. 2013.
Anne Fletcher. 2013.

SCOTLAND Cantu, Maya. Working Girls, Gold Diggers, Broads,

and Boss Ladies: Cinderella Mythologies of the
Nichols, Deana. Scottish Theatre and Drama American
in the Musical Stage, 1919-1959. Yale Univer
Age of Devolution. Indiana University. Theatre
sity. Drama. Catherine Sheehy. 2013.
and Drama. Ronald Wainscott. 2014. Choi, Mina. Making Modern Tragedy: Contem
porary Women Playwrights' Revision of Greek
SPAIN
Mythology. Ohio State University. Theatre. Lesley
Ferris. 2013.
Rodriguez, Jorge J. Naked Theater: A Translation of
Houseworth-Norman, Mary. Angel Fire Mountain
Three Spanish Modernist Plays. Yale University.
Drama. Paul Walsh. 2013. Theatre and the Texas Tech University Summer
Rep Program: The Past, Present, and Future, a
UNITED STATES Professional Problem. Texas Tech University.
Theatre and Dance. James Beekman Bush. 2013.
Hwang, Seunghyun. Remaking the American Fam
General
ily: Asian Americans on Stage during the Cold
Pierce, Andy. Sustainability and Theatre Practice:
War Era. Ohio State University. Theatre. Lesley
A Case Study of the Starlight Theatre, Kansas
Ferris. 2013.
City, Missouri. University of Missouri. Theatre.
Just, Alexandra Sascha. Construction and Repre
Cheryl Black. 2013.
sentation of New Orleans' Alterity through Live
Performances and Film. The Graduate Center/
Eighteenth Century
CUNY. Theatre. Marvin Carlson. 2015.
Valencia, Brian D. A Delightful Mess: Musical Drama
Moss, John Robert. Opening Night of the Living
in Early America, 1735-1866. Yale University.
Drama. Marc Robinson. 2013. Dead: Representations of Zombies on the Ameri
can Stage. Southern Illinois University. Theater.
Anne Fletcher. 2013.
Nineteenth Century
Summerville, Jill. The Presence of the Gimp: A Study
Berkin, Nicole. Performers and the Politics of Travel
in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America. The Graduof Differently Abled Performers in the United
States. Ohio State University. Theatre. Jennifer
ate Center/CUNY. Theatre. Judith Milhous. 2016.
Schlueter. 2013.
Cross, Lezlie C. "In the beaten way of friendship":
Edwin Booth, Horace Howard Furness, andVandevender,
the Bryan. Kiss Today Goodbye and Point
New Variorum Shakespeare. University of Wash Me Toward Tomorrow: Reviving the Timebound
ington. Drama. Thomas Postlewait. 2013. Musical, 1968-1975. University of Missouri. The
atre. Cheryl Black. 2013.

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Zimmerman, Erin Royden. Making Myth Mat Wayne State University. Theatre and Dance. James
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Classical Myth and Constructing Empowered Reinke, Lisa. Exploding Space: The Influence of
Meta-narrative in Contemporary Adaptation, as Real-Time Location-Aware Technology on Perfor
Illustrated in the Original Work, The Appalachian mance, Post-2010. The Graduate Center/CUNY.
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of Cora, and Inked. Southern Illinois University. Sanders-Andrews, Megwyn. The "R-Word": Per
Theater. Mary Bogumil. 2013. forming Intellectual and Developmental Disabili
ties. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Theatre
Twentieth/Twenty-first Centuries and Drama. Manon Van de Water. 2013.
Britton-Johnson, Maria. The Effect of Americaniza Thorson, Gregory. The Dream Continues: New
tion on the Democratic Representation of Nazi Play Development in the Twenty-first Century.
Aueseherinnen (Female Camp Guards). Texas University of Colorado, Boulder. Theatre and
Tech University. Theatre and Dance. Dorothy Dance. Oliver Gerland. 2013.
Chansky. 2013. Williams, DeRon. Taking the Next Step: A Feasibility
Gallagher-Ross, Jacob. Re-enchanting the World: Study of the Five NAST Accredited Historically
Aesthetics of the Everyday in American Theater. Black College and University Theatre Programs.
Yale University. Drama. Marc Robinson. 2013. Texas Tech University. Theatre and Dance. Mark
Ramos, Ivan. National Intimacies: Queerness, Charney. 2014.
Punk, and Affect between Mexico and the US.
University of California, Berkeley. Performance USSR
Studies. Brandi Catanese and Juana Maria Ro
driguez. 2014. Silsby, Christopher. African American Performers
in the Soviet Union. The Graduate Center/CUNY.
Theatre. Marvin Carlson. 2015.
Twenty-first Century
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PART II
Former Student Actors Value Their Experience
in High School Plays. Wayne State University.
ACTING THEORY
Theatre and Dance. Mary Anderson. 2013.
Del Vecchio, Jessica. Queer Millennial Feminism Day, Jeff. The Performative Problem of the Paradox
and Experimental Theatre in New York City. of Filtration: Reconciling Mimesis and Notions
The Graduate Center/CUNY. Theatre. David
of Reality with Theatre's Layered Narrative
Savran. 2015.
Texas Tech University. Theatre and Dance. Mark
Ellsworth, Shari. Directing Lillian Hellman's The
Charney. 2013.
Children's Hour for Today's Society: Analyzing Its
McNish, Deric. The 19 Percent: Disability and Ac
Contemporary Relevance. Texas Tech University. tor Training in Higher Education. University of
Theatre and Dance. James Beekman Bush. 2013.Colorado, Boulder. Theatre and Dance. Oliver
Foss, Matt. The Myths of the House Theatre of ChiGerland. 2013.
cago, 2002-2007. Wayne State University. Theatre
Murphy, Maiya. In Corporation: Physical Theater,
and Dance. Mary Anderson. 2013. Cognitive Science, and Moving Toward a Paradig
Howe, Ryan. Performing "Dubya": Political and
matic Revolution in Epistemology. University of
Theatrical Narratives. University of Pittsburgh.California, San Diego. Theatre and Dance. Nadine
Theatre Arts. Attilio Favorini. 2013.
George-Graves. 2013.
Masters, Paul. Post-Human Texts: Physical Lives
and Punchdrunk—a Language for the (New) CRITICISM AND AUDIENCES
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Baldyga. 2014. Brandon, Kate. A Grounded Theory Study of Co
Meier, Inga. Deconstructing the "Abyss of the temporary Christian Attitudes towards Theatre
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Discourse of 9 /11. University of Pittsburgh. The
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Morrison, Jayson Abraham. AIDS Mourning Publics: Sexuality in Dark Comedy. Tufts University.
How Performance Reframes AIDS Narratives. Drama. Laurence Senelick. 2014.

Arizona State University. Theatre and Film. Ta EDUCATIONAL THEATRE

mara Underiner. 2013.

Parker, Catherine. Faith and Learning: A Case

Giannone, Enza. Engaging Immigrant Youth
Study of Three Academic Theatre Programs atArtist-Researchers through Social Justice Theatre
Institutions in the Church of Christ Tradition.
and Docutheatre Devising Practices: A Researc

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Study-within-a-Research Study. Arizona State Dean, Tanya. The Rise of Fairy Tales, Folklore, and
University. Theatre and Film. Johnny Saldana. the Fantastic in European Theatre from the Seven
2013. teenth Century to World War II. Yale University.
Drama. James Leverett. 2014.
GENDER STUDIES
El Zein, Rayya. The Arab World in a Popular Imag
Crockarell, Sarah. Gender Difference andery. The Graduate Center/CUNY. Theatre. Maur
Radi
ya Wickstrom. 2015.
cal Queer Subjectivities in Post-Gay American
Hilborn, Debra. Staging the Middle Ages: Perfor
Drama. University of Colorado, Boulder. Theatre
and Dance. Bud Coleman. 2013. mances of Medieval Materiality in the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Centuries. The Graduate Center/
Goff, Jennifer. If More Women Knew More Jokes:
CUNY. Theatre. Judith Milhous. 2014.
A Poetics for the Twenty-first-century Comic
Woman Playwright. Wayne State University. PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Theatre and Dance. Mary Anderson. 2014.
Hin ton, Kimberly. "Ladies and Gentlemen, Whether
Cermatori, Joseph P. Baroque Modernism: Theatrical
You Like It or Not": Freaks in Contemporary Stagings of a Concept in Theory and Performance.
Columbia University. English and Comparative
British and American Theatre. Indiana University.
Theatre and Drama. Ronald Wainscott. 2016. Literature. Julie Stone Peters. 2015.
Nelson, Laura. The Performance of Feminist Dis Corts, Alicia. What Dreams May Come: Ritual
course: Examining the Visual and Rhetorical Performance as Legitimization of Gendered
Presentation of Women's Rights. University of Individual and Community Identity in Virtual
Missouri. Theatre. Heather Carver. 2013. Environments. University of Georgia. Theatre
and Film Studies. Maria Carlson. 2014.
INDIVIDUAL PLAYWRIGHTS
Felton-Dansky, Miriam. Viral Performance: The
Linn, Rachel. Returning to the Flesh: Martyrs in the
atrical Circulations in a New Media Age. Yale
University. Drama. Thomas Sellar. 2013.
Plays of Erik Ehn. Ohio University. Interdisciplin
Pate, George. Reinventing Performance, Reproduc
ary Arts. William Condee. 2013.
ing Ideologies: How Constructions of Author
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES ship Have Limited the Development of Theater
and Performance since the 1960s. University of
Jochum, Elizabeth. Deus ex Machina: Towards an
Georgia. Theatre and Film Studies. Maria Carl
Aesthetics of Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous son. 2014.
Acting Machines. University of Colorado, Boul Rastovac, Heather. Choreographic Cartographies:
der. Theatre and Dance. Oliver Gerland. 2013. Trans-historio-national Dis/Identifications of Dia
Vinitski, Daniella. Field of Mars Revisited: The 360 sporic Iranian Dancers and Performance Artists.
Sensorium of GAle GAtes et al. University of University of California, Berkeley. Performance
Colorado, Boulder. Theatre and Dance. Merrill Studies. SanSan Kwan. 2014.
Lessley. 2013. Stankiewicz, Teresa. Performance, Playwriting and
Pedagogy: Teaching Devised Theatre in the Digital
LITERARY ASPECTS
Age. University of Missouri. Theatre. Heather
Carver. 2013.
Konesko, Patrick Mike. Representing Childhood:
Sunni-Ali,
The Social and Theatrical Significance of the Child Asantewa. Performing New Afrikan
Childhood: Agency, Conformity and the Spaces
on Stage. Bowling Green State University. Theatre
and Film. Jonathan Chambers. 2013. in-between. Arizona State University. Theatre and
Mekeel, Lance. Recovering Representation:Film. From Stephani Woodson. 2013.
Wood, Katelyn Hale. Modalities of Freedom: Toward
Irreverent to Revered: On the Legitimization
of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi. Bowling Green a Politic
State of Joy in Black Feminist Comedic Perfor
University. Theatre and Film. Jonathan mance Cham in the Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century
bers. 2013. USA. University of Texas at Austin. Theater and
Shafer, Michelle. Shifting Terrain: Landscape, Dance. Omi Osun Joni Jones. 2014.
Ecology, and Environmental Theater. Columbia Utterback, Neal. Stagehands: Gesture and the Em
University. English and Comparative Literature. bodied Actor. Indiana University. Theatre and
Arnold Aronson. 2013. Drama. Amy Cook. 2013.

MULTINATIONAL SCENERY, LIGHTING, AND SOUND

Chon, Walter Byongsok. Behind Romantic Dennis,

Irony:Dan. Sound and Subjectivity in Contempo
rary American Theater. Ohio University. Interdis
How Eighteenth-century English Self-Reflective
Satire Anticipated a New German Drama. ciplinary
Yale Arts. William Condee. 2013.
University. Drama. Elinor Fuchs. 2014.

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