Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2018

Abstract

Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2018 Troy Matthew Lescher (bio), Amy Beltrán (bio), and Sammi Stowe (bio) This is the sixty-sixth 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 the 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 secondarily 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 for the 2019 edition will be mailed in October 2018. Please contact the 2018–19 editor, Troy Matthew Lescher (troy.lescher@humboldt.edu), if your institution is not already receiving the annual call for submissions. My fellow associate editors and I are grateful for the effort of all those who have contributed to this annual report. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the Humboldt State University Department of Theatre, Film & Dance and its chair, Ann Alter, for sponsoring this endeavor. [End Page 281] PART I ASIA Mantillake, Sudesh. Colonial Choreography: The British Colonial Construction of Sri Lankan Dance. University of Maryland. Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. Esther Kim Lee. 2018. Pitchford, Bart. Hela L'Wein: Imagining Citizenship through Performance in Displaced Syrian Communities. University of Texas at Austin. Theatre and Dance. Charlotte Canning. 2018. CHINA Huang, Yizhou. Staging Colonial Modernity: Performances for English-speaking Audiences in Shanghai between Two World Wars. Tufts University. Theatre and Performance Studies. Noe Montez. 2019. Kang, Bindi. Post-collective and Community in Contemporary Chinese Performance. The Graduate Center/CUNY. Theatre. Peter Eckersall. 2021. Zhang, Wei. Estranging a Post-Socialist China: Adaptations of Brecht in Chinese Theatre since the Cultural Revolution. University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Theatre and Dance. Markus Wessendorf. 2018. ENGLAND Medieval/Renaissance Nakawaki, Bryan. "You played once i' th' university, you say?": Shakespeare's Drama on the University Stage. Purdue University. English. Charlie Ross and Paul White. 2018. Wicks, Heather. Love Her after: Desire, Death, and Tragic Subjectivity on the Early Modern Stage. Purdue University. English. Charlie Ross and Paul White. 2018. Restoration and Eighteenth Century Gallagher, Megan. Accidentally Substantive: Editorial Influence in Shakespeare's Fourth Folio. Claremont Graduate University. English. Lori Anne Ferrell. 2018. Lutz, Michael. Performative Humanism in Early Modern Drama. Indiana University. English. Linda Charnes. 2019. Zoch, Amanda. Pregnancy and Erasure in Early Modern Drama and Women's Writing. Indiana University. English. Ellen MacKay. 2018. Nineteenth Century Grinder, Brittany Proudfoot. Bitches in Britches: A History of Female Travesty Actresses of the English Stage. University of Maryland. Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. Esther Kim Lee. 2018. Twentieth Century Pierson, Kate. "When All the Town's a Stage": Ann Jellicoe's Community Play Process. Florida State University. Theatre. Mary Karen Dahl and Elizabeth Osborne. 2018. GERMANY Piggott, Jessi. Staging Commitment: The Social Aesthetics of Weimar Agitprop. Stanford University. Theater and Performance Studies. Matthew Smith. 2019. IRELAND Van Winkle, Kathryn Rebecca. "They shall be speaking forever": Performances of Rising, Riot, and the Nation in Ireland 2016. University of Texas at Austin. Theatre and Dance. Charlotte Canning. 2018. SOUTH AMERICA Thompson, Jennifer. Dramaturgies of Democracy: Performance, Cultural Policy, and Citizenship in Chile, 1979–Present. The Graduate Center/CUNY. Theatre. Jean Graham-Jones. 2021. Villada, Diego. Visiting the Living Museum: Brazilian Roots Tourism and the Emancipatory Possible. University of Pittsburgh. Theatre Arts. Lisa Jackson-Schebetta. 2018. USA General Ormiston, Rebecca. Acts of Recovery: Eugene O'Neill and Addiction Treatment in Post-WWII America. Stanford University. Theater and Performance Studies. Jennifer Brody. 2018. Nineteenth Century Hughes, Bethany. Playing Indian on Stage, 1829–1924. Northwestern University. Theatre. Harvey Young. 2018. Twentieth Century Brooks, John. The Racial...