Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2010

This is the fifty-eighth annual report of dissertations in progress in theatre arts in the United States. The entries contained in this report were solicited from those universities offering a doctoral degree in areas related to theatre; the completeness and accuracy of the report depend largely on the immense cooperation of those students and faculty members who were kind enough to submit complete and timely information, either by e-mail, regular postal mail, or fax. A future request for information will be mailed in October 2010 for the 2011 edition. Please contact the editor if an institution is not already receiving the annual call for submissions.

This report lists (in order) the doctoral student’s name, dissertation title, university, department affiliation, 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 do not fit in easily according to geography or time, but conform to the growing areas of contemporary research.

We are still in the process of updating the existing categorical system for future editions. Next year’s annual request will include an area for suggestions pertaining to the organization of this report. Please feel free to contact us with your recommendations so that this compilation may continue to serve all of us more effectively.

My associate editor and I are grateful for the cooperation of all of the students and faculty members who have contributed to this present annual report of dissertations in progress in theatre arts. 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 our research request.

Part I

Africa

• Mulekwa, Charles. Performing the Legacy of War in Uganda. Brown University. Theatre and Performance Studies. John Emigh. 2010.

Bulgaria

• Blush, Robert. The Theatre-Auteur in Post-Communist Bulgaria. University of Colorado. Theatre. Oliver Gerland. 2011.

China

• Hu, Hsiu-Wei. Mei Lanfang and Stanislavsky’s Method of Physical Actions in the Performance of Traditional Chinese Opera. Wayne State University. Theatre. James Thomas. 2009.

England

Renaissance

• Dossett, Gloria J. Contemporary Approaches to Shakespeare’s Richard II. University of Missouri. Theatre. M. Heather Carver. 2011.

• McCarthy, Andrew D. Mourning Men in Early English Drama. Washington State University. English. William M. Hamlin. 2010.

• Rivers, Kelly. “Not for an age, but for all time”: Shakespeare’s Romantic Comedies on Film. University of Tennessee. English. Robert Stillman. 2010.

Seventeenth Century

• Despain, Clareann. In the House: Audiences and the Origins of the Theatrical Contract. University of California, Santa Barbara. Theater and Dance. Simon Williams. 2011.

• Garfinkle, David U. Restoration Figures of the Feminine: Gestus, Emotion, and Action in the Rhetorical Event. University of Washington. Drama. Odai Johnson. 2010.

Nineteenth Century

• Matsos, Christopher. “With Clotted Locks and Eyes Like Burning Stars”: Corporeality and the Supernatural on the Gothic Stage, 1786–1823. Ohio State University. Theatre. Lesley Ferris. 2011.

Twentieth/Twenty-first Centuries

• Heissan, Joseph. Devising Complicite: A History and Analysis of Theatre de Complicite. Graduate Center/CUNY. Theatre. Daniel Gerould. 2012.

• Thomas, Jennifer. Bryony Lavery: Playwright as Feminist Adaptor. University of Oregon. Theatre Arts. Sara Freeman. 2010.

• Yde, Matt. The Utopian Imagination of George Bernard Shaw: Totalitarianism and the Seduction of the Superman. Ohio State University. Theatre. Lesley Ferris. 2011.

Germany

• Venning, Daniel. Shakespeare for the Volk: The Popular Reception of English Renaissance Drama in the German Theatre of the Nineteenth Century. Graduate Center/CUNY. Theatre. Marvin Carlson. 2014.

• Williams, Jennifer. Body, Materiality, and Performance in East Berlin. Cornell University. Theatre, Film, and Dance. David Bathrick and Sabine Haenni. 2011.

Korea

• Park, Joohee. Decade of Change: Theatre for Children and Young Audiences in Korea, 1992–2002. University of Wisconsin–Madison. Manon van de Water. 2010.

Mexico

• Martínez, Ana. Space, Performance, and Spectacle in the Zocalo: A History of Mexico’s Central Square as a Site of Performance. Graduate Center/CUNY. Theatre. Jean Graham-Jones. 2013.

Russia

• Tvedt, Ryan. The Russian Futurist Legacy: The Conflict between...