Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 1999

This is the forty-seventh annual report of dissertations in progress in the theatre arts in the United States. The success of this report continues to depend upon prompt and accurate replies from the graduate departments of theatre, speech, English, and others, and their cooperation in this regard is gratefully acknowledged. Any graduate department that is not annually receiving requests for information for this report is invited to contact the compiler in order to be added to the mailing list.

This survey is limited to colleges and universities in the United States. For similar information from Canada, one may contact the editor of the ACTR/ARTC Newsletter, Glen Nichols, Department of English, University of Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick E1A 3E9. Each year that newsletter lists completed articles, books, and dissertations in the area of Canadian drama and theatre history.

The format employed here is adapted from that used by Frederick M. Litto in his American Dissertations of the Drama and the Theatre (1969). The graduate departments were asked to classify each dissertation by its subject matter according to the geographical divisions proposed by Litto; in the cases of England and the United States they were further asked to assign each to an arbitrary time period as indicated below. Within each of these subdivisions, entries are alphabetically arranged according to the surname of the researcher. There is no room here for the lavish cross-referencing and multiple listing Litto employs; consequently, those dissertation topics that would not yield to the geographical classifications used in Part I are listed by topic in Part II. Here again, the topic headings are those proposed by Litto; a fuller description of each may be found on page 3 of his work.

Each entry includes the following information: the researcher’s name; the title of the project; the institution; the academic department within that institution; the faculty supervisor; and the expected year of completion. Occasionally the year has not been supplied.

Volume 1, Number 1 (1949) of the Educational Theatre Journal contained the first bibliography of research projects in progress, compiled by James M. Klain. Albert E. Johnson assumed responsibility for the series in 1955, and from 1976 until 1997 Philip G. Hill continued the project. Irregularities in the early years resulted in this being the forty-seventh such report. This is the first year for the present compiler, who may be reached at The Department of Drama, Furman University, Greenville, SC 29613.

Part I

Africa

Lewis, Megab. Staging the Afrikaner in South African Theatrical and Public Life. Minnesota. Theatre Arts & Dance. Michal Kobialka. 1999.

Nelson, Amanda. Performing for the Empire: Victorian Women on Stage for the South of Africa. Tufts. Drama. Barbara Grossman. 2000.

Australia

Bradford, Shannon Leigh. The Australian Theatre of the Deaf: Movement and Meaning. Texas-Austin. Theatre & Dance. Oscar G. Brockett.

Austria

Wang, Clive. Jewish Consciousness in Viennese Drama and Opera. California-Santa Barbara. Dramatic Art. Simon Williams. 1999.

Canada

Hurley, Erin. Styling Nation: Theatre and Belonging in Quebec. CUNY. Theatre. Marvin Carlson. 2000.

McKinnie, Michael Robert Thomas. Worksites: Contemporary Toronto Theatre, Artistic Labour, and the City. Northwestern. Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre & Drama. Tracy C. Davis. 2000.

China

Conceison, Claire A. Significant Other: Representations of the American in Contemporary Chinese Spoken Drama. Cornell. Theatre. Film & Dance. David Bathrick. 1999.

Entell, Bettina. Through the Gate of Heavenly Peace: Experimental Huaju Production in China, 1983–95. Hawaii-Manoa. Theatre & Dance. E. Wichmann-Walczak. 2000.

Evans, Anne Megan. The Director’s Role in Xiqu Innovation. Hawaii-Manoa.Theatre & Dance. E. Wichmann-Walczak. 2001.

England

Medieval

von Loewenfeldt, Paula Margo. The N-Town Mystery Cycle: A Case Study for a New Approach to Late-Medieval English Drama. Purdue. English. Paul White. 2000.

Renaissance

Bounahai, Najib. The Moor in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama: Political and Racial Perspectives. Tufts. Drama. Barbara Freedman. 1999.

Brown, Sarah Ann. The Welsh in English Renaissance Drama. Texas Tech. English. Donald Rude. 1999.

Delgado-Lopez, Juan F. Puppets, Effigies, and Dummies in Renaissance Theatre: Non-Human Representation of the Human Figure in England, Italy, and Spain. Michigan. Theatre & Drama. J. R. Brown. 1999.

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