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Research Article| October 01 2018 Letter from the Editors Claire Pamment; Claire Pamment Claire Pamment is Assistant Professor of World Theatre in the Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance at the College of William & Mary. She was a Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Worship and the Arts Fellow (2015–16), and has taught at various universities in Pakistan. Her direction credits include Sarmad Sehbai's adaptation of Dario Fo's Can't Pay Won't Pay (Islamabad, 2010), which was selected for Tehran's International Festival of University Theatre in 2011. More recently she co-directed with Iram Sana (Olomopolo Media) Teesri Dhun (The Third Tune), a devised documentary theatre performance about transgender struggles in Pakistan, developed out of her present research and supported by an SSHRC grant. Her research focuses on South Asian popular theatre and performance, with interests in marginality, transgendering and Muslim cultures. Her articles have been published in TDR, Comedy Studies, Asian Theatre Journal, and in numerous books. She is the author of Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bhānd (Palgrave 2017). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hesam Sharifian Hesam Sharifian Hesam Sharifian is a PhD Candidate at Tufts University, Department of Drama and Dance. He holds a bachelor's degree in Dramatic Literature from Tehran University and a Master's degree in Theatre History and Criticism from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His scholarly publications have appeared or are forthcoming in Theatre Survey, Asian Theatre Journal, New England Theatre Journal, and Academic Theatre Journal of Iran. Recognized by the professional associations of the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies, Hesam has been the recipient of the Helen Krich Chinoy Award and the Thomas Marshal Award, both from the American Society for Theatre Research. He has also won several grants and research competitions, such as the Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship in American Visual Arts from the American Antiquarian Society and the Tisch Library Fellowship in Humanities. His areas of scholarly interest include theatre and performance in Muslim worlds, theatre and opera iconography, American commercial theatre in the long nineteenth century, German expressionist theatre and opera, and multi-culturalism in theatre. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ecumenica (2018) 11 (2): 5–7. https://doi.org/10.5325/ecumenica.11.2.0005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Claire Pamment, Hesam Sharifian; Letter from the Editors. Ecumenica 1 October 2018; 11 (2): 5–7. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/ecumenica.11.2.0005 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressEcumenica Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2018 by The Pennsylvania State University. All rights reserved.2018The Pennsylvania State University Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.
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