Ph.D. Committees Chaired

• 2020- Rini Tarafder, “Cosmopolitan Formations in Modern Indian Theatre: A Selective Inquiry.”

• 2019- Holly Berkowitz, “History from Below the Grave: Fabulation, Landscape, and the Invention of the Historical Past in Experimental Black Drama, 1974-2017.”

• 2017-20 Sunghee Pak, “Intracultural and Intercultural Shakespeares: Othello and Cleopatra, 1677-2016.”

• 2017-19 Jacob Hellman, “Field of Zionist Dreams: Soldier and State on the Israeli Stage, 1948 to the Present.”

• 2018-21 Jacquelyn Teoh (Department of English), “Niche Formations: Rethinking Literary Opportunity in Modern Literatures of Southeast Asia.” Committee Co-Chair.

• 2015–18 Katherine Lieder, “Performing ‘Nirbhaya’ (Fearlessness): Reframing Sexual Violence Discourse in Modern Urban India.”

• 2010–13 Jessica M. Brown–Velez, “Performing Exile on the Body: Home, Displacement, and Uganda’s Wars.” 

• 2010–15 Neil Scharnick, “‘The World’s Last Groans’: The Eschatology of Restoration Theatre.”

• 2007–10 Victoria Pettersen Lantz, “Locating Cultures, Constructing Identities:: The Caribbean Diaspora, Black Britain, and the Theatre of Mustapha Matura.”

• 2005–11 Dixie Beadle, “Playwright–Intellectuals and Dramatic Forms of Political Consciousness- Raising in Post-Independence Africa.”

• 2003–06 Kristin Hunt, “The Queer Afterlives of Tragedy: Space, Time, and Theatrical Adaptation.”

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Other Ph.D. Committees

• 2021 William P. Broadway, “The Modern Bestiary: Animals in the Twentieth Century Novel.” (Department of English).

• 2019-21 Prelim Exam Committee, Samitha Senanayake (Department of English).

• 2019 External Examiner for dissertation by Sofia Cavalcanti: “Reading Things: Gender and Material Culture in Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing in English.” Ph. D. Unit in English Literature, University of Bologna, Italy.

• 2017–19 Sandeep Kindo (Department of Asian Languages and Cultures), “Recognition, Identity, Justice: Oraon Custom in the Law Courts of Modern India.” Reader.

• 2018 Prelim Exam Committee, Robert Collins (Department of English).

• 2014–18 Leigh Henderson, “Exuberant Intermediality: Hypermediacy, Technology, Space-Time, and Cyborgs in the U.S. Popular Theatre, 1873-1915.”

• 2012–16 Sandy Peterson, “The Dramaturgy of the Right: The Minting and Embodied Practice of National Identity.”

• 2011–12 Bethany Wood, “Capital Complex: Valuations of Femininity in 1920s Stage Adaptations of Narratives from Women’s Culture.”

• 2009–13 Shannon Skelton, “‘Days with Age Hanging Off Me Like Dry Moss’: The Late Work of Sam Shepard, 1988–2008.”

• 2009–12 Christopher Morrison, “Beckett and Time.”

• 2009–10 External Reader for dissertation by Sanjay Kumar: “Reading the Stage: Interrogating Contemporary Urban Theatre in India.” Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
  Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

• 2007–19 Kate Merz (Department of English), “Imperial India on Trial: Crime, Punishment, and Colonialism, 1880–1940.”

• 2006–09 William Whitney, “From Counterculture to Postculture: American Avant-Garde Theatre from 1992–2009.” Reader.

• 2005–11 Teodora Nikolova, “Stanislav Stratiev and ‘Balkan Syndromes.’” Reader.

• 2005–6 External member, dissertation committee for Sujatha Moni, Department of Comparative Literature, Rutgers University. Dissertation: “Transgressing the Boundaries of Performance: Desire and Alterity in Postcolonial Drama on India.” Committee Chair: Elin Diamond.

• 2002–03 Patricia Gaborik, “Between the Avant–Garde and Fascist Modernism: Massimo Bontempelli’s Theatre, 1916–1949.”

• 2002–03 Jennifer Tallman, “Shakespearean R/Evolutions: A Cultural History of Shakespeare in Early America, 1750–1826.”

• 2001–02 David Mason, “Playing in the Lord’s Playground: God, Salvation, and Play-Acting in the Braj Ras Lila.”

• 2001–05 Jessica Gaspar, “The ‘Other Puerto Rican Theatre’: Performances of Rosa Luisa Marquez, 1987–2001.”