Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2015

Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2015 Andrew Gibb, Editor/Researcher (bio), James Beekman Bush, Editor (bio), and Amanda Espinoza, Associate Editor (bio) This is the sixty-third 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 for the 2016 edition will be mailed in October 2015. Please contact the 2015–16 editor ([email protected]) if your institution is not already receiving the annual call for submissions. My associate editors and I are grateful for the effort 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. [End Page 383] Andrew Gibb Andrew Gibb ([email protected]) is an assistant professor of theatre history, theory, and criticism in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University. He writes about nineteenth-century US theatre and Chicana/o theatre. James Beekman Bush James Beekman Bush ([email protected]) holds a PhD in interdisciplinary fine arts and experimental psychology from Texas Tech University. His research interests include creative and artistic personality profiling, the adaption of Viewpoints for survivor therapy, the use of open scenes for director training, and two-dimensional versus three-dimensional learning and retention. Amanda Espinoza Amanda Espinoza ([email protected]) is an MFA student in performance and pedagogy at Texas Tech University. Her research interests include voice and movement for the actor, improv, and LGBT studies. PART I AFRICA Adelakun, Abimbola Adunni. Performing Pentecostalism: Politics, Power, and the Public. University of Texas at Austin. Theatre and Dance. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones. 2016. Google Scholar Ayobade, Dotun. Women That Danced the Fire Dance: The Performance, Power, and Politics of Fela Kuti’s Queens. University of Texas at Austin. Theatre and Dance. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones. 2016. Google Scholar Chiteri, Lawrence. The Trickster Astride: An Auto/Ethnography of African Storytelling. University of Missouri. Theatre. M. Heather Carver. 2016. Google Scholar Denyer, Heather. Redefining Gender Epistemologies in the New Theatre of Francophone West African Theatre. The Graduate Center/CUNY. Theatre. Marvin Carlson. 2018. Google Scholar Warheit, Emily Jane. Forum Theatre as Theatre for Development in East Africa. University of Maryland. Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. Laurie Frederik. 2015. Google Scholar BRAZIL Barbara Salvadori-Heritage. Politics of Corporeality in Brazilian Theatre. University of Missouri. Theatre. Suzanne Burgoyne and M. Heather Carver. 2016. Google Scholar CHINA Lin, Yining. Adaptation and Continuity: The Interculturality of Jingju Productions Adapted from Western Literature in the Twenty-first Century. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Theatre and Dance. Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak. 2018. Google Scholar ENGLAND General Madison, Emily Lang. Tragic Contestations: Shakespeare, Tragedy, and Affect in Modern British and American Theatre. Columbia University. Theatre. W. B. Worthen. 2017. Google Scholar Medieval Renaissance Jennings, Heather. Speaking Flesh: Embodied Knowledge in Medieval Rhetoric, Pedagogy, and Performance. University of California, Davis. English. Seeta Chaganti. 2015. Google Scholar Johns Taff, Dyani. Contested Vessels: Gender and the Maritime in Early Modern Texts. University of California, Davis. English. Margaret Ferguson. 2015. Google Scholar Pacenza, Jennifer. Dramatic Experimentation in Early Modern Performance. Indiana University. English. Ellen MacKay. 2015. Google Scholar Eighteenth Century Chon, Walter Byongsok. Behind Romantic Irony: How Eighteenth-Century English Self-Reflective Satire Anticipated a New German Drama. Yale University. Drama. Elinor Fuchs. 2015. Google

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