Graduate Alumni

Completed Ph.D. Degrees in Performance Studies

Since inception of the program in 1998

Graduates from the PhD in Performance Studies are hired in a great range of disciplines, from art history and literature to theatre, communications and Asian American studies.

Anderson, Patrick

“So Much Wasted’: Violence Performed In Anorexia Nervosa, Staged Fasts, and Hunger Striking” SP05

UC San Diego, Associate Professor, Communications

Boyle, (Michael) Shane

“The Ambivalence of Resistance: West German Antiauthoritarian Performance after the Age of Affluence” FL12

2013 – Harvard University, College Writing Program, Lecturer

Bayraktar, Nilgun

“Moving Images Against the Current: The Aesthetics and Geopolitics of (Im)mobility in Contemporary Europe” FL11

2011 – UC Berkeley, R&C Lectureship

2012 – Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

Baron, Michelle

“Queering US Public Mourning Rituals: Funerals, Performance, and the Construction of Normativity” SU11

2011 – Oberlin College,Visiting Asst. Professor

2012 – Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies

Burriss, Catherine

“Performing Theory: Gendered and Erotic Complications in Cinquecento Italian Comedies, and some English Reverberations” FL06

CSU Channel Islands, Assistant Professor, Performing Arts

Cappelli, Renu

“Inadmissible Presence: Objecthood, Spectacle, and the Theatricality of Race” FL07

Stanford University, Post-doctoral Scholar, Introduction to the Humanities

Case, Gretchen

“Medical Scarring and the Performance of Memory” FL05

Duke University, University Writing Program Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer in Northwestern University’s Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

2011 – University of Utah School of Medicine Assistant Professor,

Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities

Casey, Carrie Gaiser

“Ballet’s Feminisms: Genealogy and Gender in Twentieth-Century American Ballet History” FL09

St. Mary’s College of California, Lecturer, Liberal Education for Arts Professionals program

Crow, Heather

“POSSESSIONS: Animated Bodies in Mediated Performance” FL06

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Assistant Professor, Art and Design, Peck School of the Arts

Davis, Reid

“Sissy Warriors: Perversity, Performance, and the Unruly Child” FL06

St. Mary’s College, Lecturer, Liberal Education for Arts Professionals program

Duffly, Catherine

“From Farm to Table to Stage: Performing Food Politics” FL11

2011 – UC Berkeley, R&C Lectureship California College of the Arts, Lecturer

2012 – Reed College, Assistant Professor

Fisek, Emine

“Incorporating Immigrants: Theatrical Aid Work and the Politics of Witnessing in France” SP10

Johns Hopkins University, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities,

Krieger School of Arts and Science, German and Romance Languages and Literatures

2012 – Bogazici University, Turkey, Assistant Professor, Department of Western Languages and Literature

Fisher, Margaret

“Recovery of Ezra Pound’s Third Opera Collis O Heliconii: The Transmission of History Through Song” SP03

Second Evening Arts Publishing

Gough, Kathleen

“Bleeding Regions: Performance and Politics in the ‘Backwaters’ of the Atlantic” FL05

University of Glasgow, Lecturer, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies

Hagstrom Stahl, Kristina

“Melancholy Traces: Performing the Work of Mourning” FL06

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Lund University, Sweden and also teaches at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts

Hoffmann, Beth

“Acting without Guarantees: The Politics of Form in Contemporary British Performance” FL08

George Mason University, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English

Johung, Jennifer

“Replacements: From the Primordial Hut to the Digital Network” SP08

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History

Kokontis, Kate

“Performative Returns and the Rememory of History: genealogy and performativity in the American racial state” FL11

2011 – New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Academic Studio: Founding Faculty and Assistant Department Chair, Integrated Humanities

Levin, Laura

“Performing World” SP05

York University, Associate Professor, Theatre Studies

Lu, Joyce

“Dreaming in Other Languages: On the Performance of Autobiographical Narrative as Decolonizing Pedagogy” SP07

Pomona College, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

Claremont Colleges, Theatre and Asian American Studies

McGonigal, Jane

“This Might be a Game: Ubiquitous Play Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century” FL06

Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, CA,

Director of Games Research and Development

McIvor, Charlotte

“The New Interculturalism: Race, Gender and Immigration in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland” SP11

National University of Ireland, Galway, Department of English

Nguyen, Khai Thu

“Sensing Vietnam: Melodramas of Nation from Colonialism to Market Reform” SP10

University of California, Berkeley, R&C Lectureship, College of Letters and Sciences

Palacios, Joy Crosby

“Preaching for the Eyes: Priests, Actors, and Ceremonial Splendor in Early Modern France” SU12

Prieur, Nina Billone

“In the System: Art, Prison, and the Performance of Social Welfare” FL10

Duke University, Assistant Professor, Theatre Studies

Rafferty, Kelly Ann

“Performing ARTs: Technologies of Participation and Reproduction from Body Art to Bio Art” SP10

Arizona State University, Assistant Professor of Performance Studies

Scott, Ariel Osterweis

“Body Impossible: Dynamics of Race, Sexuality, and Virtuosity in the Dance of Desmond Richardson” FL11

Wayne State University Michigan, Assistant Professor

Seetoo, Chia-Yi

“The Political Kinesthetics of Contemporary Dance: Taiwan in Transnational Perspective” Sp13

Shalson, Lara

“Endurance: Arts, Politics, and Performance” FL08

King’s College London, Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies

Stufft, Monica

“Chorus Girl Collective: Early 20^th Century American Performance Communities and Urban Networking” SP08

University of San Diego, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts

Taylor, Joanne Stoddard

“21st Century Zombies: New Media, Cinema, and Performance” FL11