Professor, Department of English
Rhode Island College
(401) 456-2803
sabbotson@ric.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Modern and Contemporary Drama
Women’s Theatre
Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
William Inge
August Wilson

Associate Professor
College of Charleston
applervr@cofc.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Science and Performance
Practice as Research
Devised and Physical Theatre
Puppetry and Mask
Feminist Performance
Seventeenth-Century Drama
Aphra Behn
Margaret Cavendish

Professor Emeritus
Kent State University
rbank@kent.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Long nineteenth-century U.S. theatre history
World’s fairs
Show Indians
Wild west shows
Frontier dramas
Museums
Anthropology
Intellectual history
Historiography

Professor of Theatre and Head of Dramaturgy 
Department of Theatre & Dance
University of Kansas
jane@ku.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Dramaturgy 
Adaptation in Theatre
Gender and Performance 
Witches and Witchcraft representation on the American stage and screen
Theatre Historiography

Professor and Chair
Department of Theater and Dance
Bowdoin College
(207) 725-3419
sbaycheng@bowdoin.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Modern drama
Media and performance
Film history
Avant-garde
Contemporary American performance

Associate Professor of English; affiliated faculty in Philosophy
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
bennettm@uww.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Absurd drama and theatre
19th-21st c. European drama and theatre
19th-21st c. American drama and theatre
Theatre and Philosophy (a.k.a. Performance Philosophy)
Oscar Wilde
Edward Albee
Eugene O’Neill

christianbell.phd@gmail.com

Areas of Specialization:
Performance Theory
Native American Theatre and Performance
Climate Change/Ecocriticism
Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed
Ethics and Community-Based Practice

Professor of Theatre & Dance
University of Kansas
(785) 864-6158
hbial@ku.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Jewish representation on the American stage and screen since 1900
Performance theory
Religion and theatre
Theatre Historiography
Musical Theatre History

Associate Professor, Theatre
Binghamton University, SUNY
dbisaha@binghampton.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Theatre and performance design history
Immersive and participatory performance
Theatre historiography
Theatre labor studies

Professor of Theatre
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
Workers Theatre in the U.S.
Acting/Acting Pedagogy
Dramaturgy

Doctoral Student, Department of Theatre
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
bolandt2@illinois.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Shakespeare
Adaptation
Preganancy and Performance
Women’s and Feminist Theatre

Jbrody845@gmail.com

Areas of Specialization:
Auditioning
Acting theories
Archetype as related to actors and story
Neuroscience of acting
Career planning for actors

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”)

Independent Scholar
carlyon123@me.com

Areas of Specialization:
Circus
Physical Comedy
19th-century theater and politics
Broadway producing and practice

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
Arts in Higher Education

Professor of Theatre
School of Theatre and Dance
Texas Tech University 
dorothychansky@gmail.com

Areas of Specialization:
American Little Theatre Movement
Domestic Labor on the American Stage
Food and Theatre
Feminist Theatre

Associate Professor
Wabash University
cherryj@wabash.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Early 20th century American theater
Parody
Popular culture
American film

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

Professor of Theatre
Central Michigan University
(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

Assistant Professor of Theatre
University at Buffalo, SUNY
maconti@buffalo.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Nineteenth-century American and British theatre
Victorian medicine and theatre
Firearms in American theatre and performance
Popular entertainments of the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries
Theatre iconography

Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies
Allegheny College
(814) 332-2304
mcosdon@allegheny.edu

Areas of Specialization:
History of Popular Entertainments
Pantomime
Contemporary American Musical
Circus

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

Associate Professor
Marist College
(845) 575-2536
eileencurley@gmail.com

Areas of Specialization
Amateur theatre
Theatrical design and technology
19th c. theatre and drama

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

Assistant Professor of Theatre History
University of Houston, Downtown
zachdailey22@gmail.com

Areas of Specialization:
21st Century American Playwrights
Dominique Morisseau
Katori Hall
Annie Baker
Samuel D. Hunter
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
African American Theatre
American Cultural Studies
American Regionalism
Fat Studies

Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
carla@umd.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Latinx theatre
Adaptation and translation
Bilingual theatre
Archival theory
Shakespeare in the United States

Associate Professor and Director of Theatre and Multi-Media Performance
Lehman College, CUNY
rickdesrochers63@gmail.com

Areas of Specialization:
Multi-Media Performance
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth American Stage and Film Comedy – Vaudeville, Slapstick Silent Film, and Burlesque
European Avant-Garde of Early the Twentieth Century – Cabaret, Dada, and Surrealism
Commedia dell’Arte
American Film and Television History
New Play Development and Production
Dramaturgy

Assistant Professor of English in the University Theater
Colgate University
cducomb@colgate.edu
colgate.edu/christianducomb

Areas of Specialization:
American Cultural Studies
Avant-Garde Drama
Intercultural Theatre
Minstrelsy
Playwrights and Directors: Pig Iron Theatre Company
Theatre Historiography

Texas State University
jf48@txstate.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Shakespeare in Performance

Professor Emeritus, School of Theatre
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
ajfisher@uncg.edu

Areas of Specialization:
American Theatre
Tony Kushner
Gay and Lesbian Theatre
Musical theatre

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities
University of Pittsburgh

Areas of Specialization:
Modern and Contemporary Drama
American Cultural Studies (focus: post-1945)
Climate Change / Ecocriticism
Theoretical Humanism
Black Radicalism
Radical Feminist / Queer Theory and Performance
Dramaturgy

Professor Emeritus, Drama
University of Virginia
(434) 973-1742
jwfvir@gmail.com

Areas of Specialization:
19th century American Theatre
Popular entertainments
Temperance Drama
Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Stage

Associate Professor of Theatre
University of California, Riverside
galella@ucr.edu

Areas of Specialization:
African American theatre
Arena Stage
Asian American theatre
Casting
Musical theatre
Yellowface

Assistant Professor
Barnard College, Columbia University
(212) 854-6863
sg488@columbia.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Suzan-Lori Parks
Contemporary Performance
European and American Theatrical Modernism
Production Dramaturgy and Directing

Associate Professor of Theatre
Lyon College
(870) 307-7511
fonzie.geary@lyon.edu

Areas of Specialization:
American Drama 1920-1959
Maxwell Anderson
Playwrights’ Company
American Cultural Movements in Dramatic Literature (e.g. American Revolutionary Philosophy, Frontierism, Protestantism, Transcendentalism)

Doctoral Lecturer
Baruch College, CUNY
Co-Editor, Journal of American Drama and Theatre

Areas of Specialization:
American Drama and Theatre
LGBTQ+ Performance (especially Split Britches) 
Feminist Theatre
Age Studies
Gender Studies
Late Style
Canadian Drama and Theatre
Communication Studies

Associate Professor
Universidade de Vigo, Spain
acrespan@uvigo.es
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2619-8647

Areas of Specialization:
Women in theater
Gender
María Irene Fornés
Lillian Hellman

Associate Professor, Theatre Arts
University of Pittsburgh
mkg31@pitt.edu

Areas of Specialization:
American and Irish theatre and popular entertainment
Performances of race, ethnicity, gender, and class
Diaspora and global performance histories
Theatre historiography

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

Associate Professor of Theater and Gender & Sexuality Studies
Lewis Center for the Arts,
Princeton University
bherrera@princeton.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Casting
Gender-Crossing/Drag Performance
Latinx Theatre
US Popular Performance, 1870-2020
Musical theatre
María Irene Fornés
Ramona and Performances of the US Southwest

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 

Chair, Theatre 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

Professor, Theatre & Drama
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
aehugh@umich.edu

Areas of Specialization:
19th-century US theatre and culture
disability studies
human-animal studies
documentary editing
digital humanities

Associate Professor, Theatre Department
Skidmore College
ljackso3@skidmore.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Hemispheric Americas
Latin America
Iberia and Spain
Coloniality
Directing and Devising

Professor of English
Affiliate, Global and Intercultural Studies
Miami University
johnso33@miamioh.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Eugene O’Neill
Early American Theatre
Theatre Historiography
Gender and Performance
Women’s Theatre
Dramaturgy
Minstrelsy–Breaking of Color lines

Associate Professor, Department of Theatre and Media Arts
Brigham Young University
(801) 422-1321

Areas of Specialization:
19th and 20th c. religious performance
Mormon performance
19th c. melodrama
Women’s studies
Musical Theatre

Associate Professor
Champollion University/Toulouse Jean-Jaurès University, France
emeline.jouve@gmail.com

Areas of Specialization:
Theater and justice
Women in theater
Gender
Politics
Intermediality
Experimental theater

Associate Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance
kattwinkels@cofc.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Popular Entertainment
Vaudeville
Dramaturgy
Theatre in Higher Education

Assistant Professor, Department of Performing Arts
American University
(202) 885-346
kippola@american.edu

Areas of Specialization:
American Musical Theatre
19th Century American Theatre
Acting and Acting History
Masculinity

Associate Professor Emerita of Theatre
University of Kansas
kleinj@ku.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Theatre for Young Audiences (18th c. through present)
Children’s plays, playwrights, and prose literature
Audience reception studies

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

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

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

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

Postdoctoral Fellow, History of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University

Areas of Specialization:
19th and 20th c US Theatre and Popular Performance
Science and Performance
Doctors, Diseases, and Epidemics on Stage
Eugenics
History of Biomedicine
Medical Humanities

Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre
Wesleyan College
(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

Independent Scholar
+49-611-56579933
t.leuchtenmueller@t-online.de

Areas of Specialization:
August Wilson
African-American Drama
Arthur Miller

Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Theatre
University of Missouri-Kansas City
(816) 235-2781
londref@umkc.edu

Areas of Specialization:
American entertainment 1890s-1920s
Tennessee Williams
Thornton Wilder
Eugene O’Neill
19th & 20th-century French & Russian Theatre & Drama
Shakespeare production history
Shakespeare authorship question

Professor of English
Director, Anselmian Abbey Players
Saint Anselm College
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

Professor of Theatre Arts and American Studies
University of Iowa
(319) 353-2402
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

Assistant Professor
Pomona College
Department of Theatre & Dance
(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

Assistant Professor
Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State
macdo282@msu.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Musical theatre history
Musical theatre dramaturgy
American theatre
Theatre audiences, fans, and reception
Transnational American studies
Global theatre history

Dean’s Professor of English
University of Kansas
(785) 864-2568
lmielke@ku.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Early American literature and theatre
Nineteenth-century US literature and theatre
American Indians in literature and performance, pre-1900
Literature of slavery and abolition

Associate Professor, Department of English
Oakland University
mcdanie2@oakland.edu

Areas of Specialization:
African American theatre and drama (Harlem Ren – present)
Intersectional Gender, Queer, and African American Studies
Trauma
Motherhood
Contemporary BIPOC-American theatre and drama
Postcolonial theatre and drama

Associate Professor of English
Harvard University
dmiller@fas.harvard.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Economics of Theater
Theater and Law
Broadway
Musical Theater
Play Publishing
Contemporary Off-Broadway Theater
Digital Humanities
Copyright

Assistant Professor of English
Queens College, City University of New York
hillary.miller@qc.cuny.edu

Areas of Specialization:
American Theatre and Drama Post-WWII
Queer Theatre
Performance and Urban Development
Sociology of Theatre
Contemporary Playwriting
Writing Pedagogy

Assistant Professor
American Studies Program
Founding Director of the Office of Intercultural Literacy, Capacity and Engagement
Indiana University Purdue University – Indianapolis (IUPUI)
carmel.elkin@gmail.com

Areas of Specialization:
Native American Drama
Native American Performance
Critical Race Theory
US Ethnic Theater
Chicana/o Theater
Theater for Social Justice

Associate Professor, Drama and Dance
Co-Editor, Theatre Topics
Tufts University

Areas of Specialization:
Latinx Theatre
Latin American Theatre
Contemporary U.S. Theatre
Modern Drama

Professor & Chair, Department of Drama and Dance, Tufts University
Series Editor, Studies in Theatre History and Culture, University of Iowa Press
Heather.nathans@tufts.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

Distinguished Professor, Drama Department, Academy of Art, University of Osijek
tel 385 1 631 41 48
sanja.nikcevic@uaos.hr

Areas of Specialization:
Contemporary American drama
Contemporary European drama
Theatre criticism

Assistant Professor
Department of Theatre & Dance, University at Buffalo – SUNY

Areas of Specialization:
Dance studies
Critical race theory
Historiography
Queer studies
Popular entertainment
Cognitive studies
Musical theater choreography

Assistant Professor of Theatre History
Oklahoma City University
asosatinski@okcu.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Contemporary Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre History
Contemporary American Theatre
Popular Culture
Theatre and Digital Media/Technology
Directing
Dramaturgy
Pedagogy
Disney Theatrical Productions
Screen-to-Stage Musicals

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

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

Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies
University of Michigan 
aariley@umich.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Disability Performance
Mad Performance
Performance in Medical Settings (esp. Asylums/Mental Hospitals)
Psychiatry and Performance
20th and 21st century performance
Practice as Research
Embodied Dramaturgy

Assistant Professor
Department of Theatre and Dance, University at Buffalo
DRosvall@Buffalo.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Shakespeare
Stage Combat
Violence on Stage
TikTok
Theatrical Socio-Economics
Nineteenth-Century American Theatre
Popular Culture

Assistant Professor
Villanova University

Areas of Specialization:
Stage Directions
Theatre Theory
LGBTQ+ Theatre
Intersectional Feminism
Tennessee Williams
Eugene O’Neill
Irish Theatre
Theatre & Protest

University Professor of American Literature
University of Erfurt, Nordhäuser Str. 63, 99089
Erfurt, Germany
ilka.saal@uni-erfurt.de

Areas of Specialization:
Political Theater
New Deal Theater
Theater and War
Memory Studies
Trauma Studies
African American Theater

Professor, English
Spring Hill College
(251) 380-4644
sauer@shc.edu

Areas of Specialization:
David Mamet
August Wilson
Wendy Wasserstein
Contemporary American Drama
Drama in Performance

Associate Professor, Department of Theatre Arts
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
(724) 836-7483
sas114@pitt.edu

Areas of Specialization:
“Theatre in Cyberspace”
Virtual Theatre
Teaching with Technology
Goethe’s Faust

Visual and Performing Arts
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
mshulman@uccs.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Modern Drama
Political Theatre
Popular Entertainment
Vaudeville
Progressive Era Theatre
Representations of Drug Addiction in American Theatre and Film

Professor, English
University of Pittsburgh
shs1@pitt.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Modern and Contemporary Drama
American Cultural Studies (late 19th/early 20th centuries)

Assistant Professor, English
LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York
(718) 482-5680
naomi_stubbs@hotmail.com

Areas of Specialization:
Nineteenth century American theatre
Nineteenth century American popular entertainments
Pleasure gardens
Critical editing

Associate Professor
Indiana University
arvalent@indiana@edu

Areas of Specialization:
Large-scale puppetry and mask
Community-based arts education

Associate Professor of Theatre
Bucknell University
bmv003@bucknell.edu

Areas of Specialization:
American Musical Theatre: History, Theory, and Practice
Revival and Repetition in Performance 
Dramaturgy
Directing
Ethics and Theatre

Professor
CUNY – New York City College of Technology
svey@citytech.cuny.edu

Areas of Specialization:
19th and 20th Century American Theatre
Child Actors
Child labor laws

Assistant Professor of Theatre
and Technical Director
Susquehanna University
(570) 372-4548
viker@susqu.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Production management
Theatre operations and technology
Stage management
Technical theatre in liberal arts education

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Theatre and Drama
Indiana University
(912) 855-9021
wainscot@indiana.edu

Areas of Specialization:
American theatre and dramatic literature late 19th-21st century
American and European theatre and drama between the world wars
Eugene O’Neill
History and theory of directing

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

Associate Professor
Department of Theatre
Michigan State University
whitea38@msu.edu

Areas of Specialization:
20th C. theatre and popular performance
Food politics and culture
Great Depression
Gender and feminist theory

Adjunct Assistant Professor, English
Baruch College, CUNY
Catherine.Young@baruch.cuny.edu

Areas of Specialization:
Animal studies
Popular theatre history (vaudeville, minstrelsy, circus, and Broadway)
Contemporary US theatre
Women in theatre
Critical race studies