Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2013

This is the sixty-first 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 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 to the 2014 edition will be mailed in October 2013. Please contact the editor (james.bush@ttu.edu) if an institution is not already receiving the annual call for submissions.

My associate editors and I are grateful for the efforts 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, Mark Charney, for sponsoring this endeavor.

Part I

Africa

Seleem, Amany. Achieving Political Goals under the Guise of Religion in Egyptian Theatre. Ohio State University. Theatre. Lesley Ferris. 2013.

Bulgaria

Blush, Robert O. The Theatre-Auteur in Post-Totalitarian Bulgaria. University of Colorado, Boulder. Theatre and Dance. Oliver Gerland. 2013.

Canada

Burelle, Julie. Encounters on Contested Lands: Native-American Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Quebec. University of California, San Diego. Theatre and Dance. Emily Roxworthy. 2014.

Rollie, Emily. Taking the Stage: Gender, Nationality, and the Work of Canadian Women Theatre Directors. University of Missouri. Theatre. Cheryl Black. 2013.

China

Yang, Ming. Kunqu "New Aesthetics" and Their Relationship to the Third Revitalization of Kunqu. University of Hawaii, Manoa. Theatre and Dance. Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak. 2014.

Yapp, Hentyle. Affecting Form, Imagination, and Animation in Contemporary Chinese Performance Art. University of California, Berkeley. Performance Studies. Shannon Jackson. 2014.

England

Medieval/Renaissance

Coker-Durso, Lauren. Metatheatricality and "Disability Drag": Performing Bodily Difference on the Renaissance Stage. Saint Louis University. Sara Van Den Berg. 2013.

Hunter, Matthew. The Pursuit of Style in Shakespearean Drama. Yale University. English. David Scott Kastan. 2015.

Kamminga-Peck, Hadley. Using the Doctrine of the King's Two Bodies to Interpret Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. University of Colorado, Boulder. Theatre and Dance. Oliver Gerland. 2014.

Restoration/Eighteenth Century

Boze, Cassandra. "Drunk, Very Drunk at Your Service": The Function of Drunks in Eighteenth-Century Drama. Auburn University. English. Paula Backscheider. 2014.

O'Rourke, Deirdre. Restoring the British World: Embodying Stuart Surrogation through Performance and Space. University of Pittsburgh. Theatre Arts. Lisa Jackson-Schebetta. 2014.

Phillips, Chelsea. "Carrying All Before Her": Pregnancy and Performance on the British Stage in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1688-1807. Ohio State University. Theatre. Lesley Ferris. 2013.

Nineteenth Century

Rosell, Carla. "Do Feet Have Mouths?" Imaginings of Slander in Early Modern England. University of Illinois. English. Lori Humphrey Newcomb. 2015.

Stahl, Megan. Female Playwrights and Managers at the Britannia Theatre, London. Tufts University. Drama. Natalya Baldyga. 2014.

Twenty-first Century

Harmon, Rand. Site-based Theatre of Twenty-first Century United Kingdom: Conceptualizing Audience-Experience. University of Colorado, Boulder. Theatre and Dance. Oliver Gerland. 2013.

Germany

Achen, Monica. The Politics of Primitivism in German Expressionist Drama, 1907-1920. Yale University. Drama. Elinor Fuchs. 2013.

Cornish, Matthew. Last Stop, Germania: Uses and Representations of History in the German Theater. Yale University. Drama. Elinor Fuchs. 2013.

Lichtenberg, Drew Arthur. Die Piscatorbühne: The 1927-28 Season and the Roots of Epic Theater. Yale University. Drama. James Leverett. 2013.

Shaw, Jennifer Louise Jude. Up-Staging Itself: Five Self-Reflexive German Romantic Plays with an Introduction. Yale University. Drama. Paul Walsh. 2013.

India

Bannerji, Arnab. Setting...