This is the fifty-ninth 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 students and 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 future request for information will be mailed in October 2011 for the 2012 edition. Please contact the editor (troy.lescher@ttu.edu) if an institution is not already receiving the annual call for submissions.
My associate editor 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 Texas Tech University Department of Theatre and Dance and its chair, Professor Fred Christoffel, for sponsoring this endeavor. [End Page 305]
Part I
Africa
Brown-Velez, Jessica M. Performing Exile on the Body: Home, Displacement, and Uganda's Wars. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Theatre and Drama. Aparna Dharwadker. 2012.
Callahan, Aralene D., II. Developing Theatrically: Agency and Influence in Burkinabe Theatrical Production. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Theatre and Drama. Aparna Dharwadker. 2012.
Cima, Gibson Alessandro. Postapartheid South African Theatre 1990-2010: Residue, Revision, and Revival. University of Washington. Drama. Odai Johnson. 2011.
Sizemore-Barber, April. Over the Rainbow? Constituting Queerness and Performing Nation in Post-Apartheid South Africa. University of California, Berkeley. Performance Studies. Catherine Cole. 2013.
England
General
Lee, Melissa. "Silk Stockings and White Bosoms": The Actress and the Theatrical Performance of Self. Ohio State University. Theatre. Lesley Ferris. 2011.
Oldham, Thomas. A History of Violence on the English Stage, Early Modern and Modern. Indiana University. Theatre and Drama. Ronald Wainscott. 2011.
Medieval Renaissance
Lynn, Tara. Codes of Position: Vertical Staging on the Elizabethan Stage. University of Tennessee. English. Heather Hirschfeld. 2011.
Weber, William. Shakespearean Metamorphoses: Literary Allusion in Early Modern Drama. Yale University. English Language and Literature. David Scott Kastan. 2013.
Seventeenth Century
DiSalvo, Gina M. Crossing the Reformation Divide: Saints' Plays in Early Modern England. Northwestern University. Theatre and Drama. William West. 2012.
Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Scharnick, Neil. The World's Last Groans: The Eschatology of Restoration Theatre. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Theatre and Drama. Aparna Dharwadker. 2012.
Wolfram, Nathalie. Uncanny Performances: The Gothic Novel on the London Stage. Yale University. English Language and Literature. Joseph Roach and Katie Trumpener. 2013.
Nineteenth Century
McCarroll, Sarah. Clothing and the Body on the Late-Victorian Stage. Indiana University. Theatre and Drama. Amy Cook and Ronald Wainscott. 2011.
Meeuwis, Michael. Everyone's Theater: Literary Culture and Daily Life in England, 1860-1914. University of Chicago. English. Loren Kruger. 2011.
Neziroski, Lirim. The Performative Byron: Theatrical Productions in Victorian England. University of Georgia. English. Nelson Hilton. 2011.
France
Calder, David C. Visible Machinery: Street Theatre and Industrial Space in Contemporary France. Northwestern University. Theatre and Drama. Tracy C. Davis. 2013.
Connick, Robert. Rethinking Artaud's Practical and Theoretical Works. Bowling Green State University. Theatre and Film. Scott Magelssen. 2011.
Germany
Woolf, Brandon. Paradigmatic Institutions: Cultural Policy and Contemporary Performance Nach der Wende. University of California, Berkeley. Performance Studies. Shannon Jackson. 2013.
India
Wasson, Devika. Re-Interpreting the Expressive Body: An Analysis of abhinaya as Used by the Female Performer in Contemporary kutiyattam and nangiarkoothu. University of Hawaii, Manoa. Theatre. Kirstin Pauka. 2014.
Ireland
Martinovich, Mary (Kay). The Poetics of Haunting in Contemporary Irish and Northern Irish Drama. University of Minnesota. Theatre Arts and Dance. Margaret Werry. 2011.
Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2011
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