Contributors
- Contributors
ALAN SIKES is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre at Louisiana State University, where he teaches courses in theatre history and dramatic theory. He received his M.F.A. in theatre directing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Alan researches the role of theatre in the formation and contestation of class and gender identities; his monograph on this topic, Representation and Identity from Versailles to the Present: The Performing Subject, is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Alan also has essays in the anthologies Querying Difference in Theatre History, Theatre Historiography: Critical Questions, and Public Theatres and Theatre Publics, as well as several theatre and performance journals.
HEIDI L. NEES is an assistant professor in the Theatre and Dance Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She received her Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University in 2012 and has shared her research at the American Society for Theatre Research, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the Mid-America Theatre Conference.
NICOLE BERKIN recently completed her Ph.D. in Theatre Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation examines the social and material conditions of touring in nineteenth-century American performance culture. She has published essays in New England Theatre Journal and in the edited collection, Performing Objects and Theatrical Things (Palgrave, 2014).
ANDREW GIBB is an assistant professor of theatre history, theory, and criticism in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University. He is currently [End Page 173] working on a book about theatre and performance in nineteenth-century California, a project that combines his research interests in U.S. theatre history and Chicana/o theatre.
MEGAN GEIGNER is a candidate in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama program at Northwestern University. She has an M.A. in liberal studies from Reed College and an M.A. in theatre studies from Illinois State University. Her dissertation examines the creation of American hyphenate identity through ethnic public performance in early-twentieth-century Chicago. Her work has been published in New England Theatre Journal and Modern Drama. She is the Graduate Rep for the Theatre History Focus Group at Association for Theatre in Higher Education and an officer for the Ethnic Studies Graduate Student Colloquium at Northwestern. She also works as a professional dramaturg in Chicago. [End Page 174]
