Contributors
- Contributors
Jane Barnette, associate editor, is a theatre historian who writes about adaptation, train culture, and American pageantry. She has published reviews and articles in Theatre Journal, Theatre Symposium, Theatre InSight, and TPQ. Barnette serves as LMDA’s regional vice president for the Plains and as the Theory and Criticism Focus Group conference planner for ATHE 2014–15. After eight years as the resident dramaturg of Kennesaw State University’s Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, Barnette now teaches at the University of Kansas. Her forthcoming book on adaptation dramaturgy will be published by Southern Illinois University Press.
Becky Becker heads the bachelor of arts program in theatre at Columbus State University and coordinates the International Studies Certificate for the university’s Center for International Education. She has conceived and directed several oral history performances, including Westville: Collected Lives, Bibb City: Collected Lives From a Mill Town, and InvisMen: Ruminations on Color, Class, and College. Her research interests include cross-cultural theatre, intercultural communication, and the embodied mind. Becker’s published works may be found in Theatre Journal, Feminist Teacher, and Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy.
Camille L. Bryant is an associate professor of educational research at Columbus State University’s College of Education and Health Professions. She earned a PhD in research, statistics, and evaluation from the University of Virginia and a bachelor of science in psychology from the College of William and Mary. Her research focuses on the use of advanced methodological approaches to examine student and teacher contextual variables, program implementation, and student outcomes. She has published in Reading Research Quarterly and the Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy.
Jerry Daday received his master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology from the University of New Mexico. He currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Western Kentucky University and as the executive director of the university’s Center for Faculty Development. His primary teaching and research interests focus on the etiology [End Page 137] of offending and victimization in society. He is passionate about interdisciplinary research and providing service-learning opportunities for his sociology and criminology students. Over the past three years, he has worked closely with Carol Jordan in administering the Patricia Minton Taylor Theatre-in-Diversion Program at WKU.
Andrea Dawn Frazier has a doctorate in educational psychology and currently teaches educational psychology and educational research courses in the Department of Counseling, Foundations, and Leadership at Columbus State University. Her research interests encompass the educational experience of girls and students of color, with recent work exploring possible selves and academic self-concept in high-ability African American students and spatial reasoning in elementary-age children. She is coeditor of the book Special Populations in Gifted Education: Understanding Our Most Able Students from Diverse Backgrounds with Jaime Castellano.
Carol Jordan received a master’s degree in theatre education from Emerson College in Boston and has spent the past fifteen years teaching theatre at every level from kindergarten to college. She is currently an instructor in the Western Kentucky University Department of Theatre and Dance with a focus on theatre with and for young people. She is particularly interested in providing high-quality drama opportunities for at-risk teenagers and promoting arts integration across the curriculum. Over the past three years, she has partnered with Jerry Daday of the WKU Department of Sociology to develop and lead the Patricia Minton Taylor Theatre-in-Diversion Program.
Edward Journey is an associate professor in the Department of Visual, Performing, and Communication Arts at Alabama A&M University. He has taught theatre courses at colleges and universities around the country, including the University of Alabama, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Southern Indiana, Galveston College, and Longwood University. He worked as an artist, administrator, director, stage manager, and educator in professional regional theatres throughout the United States from 1989 to 2002. He has a special research interest in the literary plays of modernist icon Gertrude Stein. Journey earned his MFA in theatre with a concentration in directing from the University of Alabama.
Aaron L. Kelly holds a master’s degree in theatre arts and is a doctoral student in theatre and performance studies...
