This dissertation is an interdisciplinary analysis of Heiner Müller’s dramatic work, focusing not only on the depiction of history in his texts and stage productions …
This dissertation investigates the emergent genre of 'surveillance art,' or art works that centrally employ technologies and techniques of surveillance to create theatre, installation, and …
This dissertation investigates how theatricality and performance enter into the scene of contemporary Asian American cultural production. I argue that Asian American artists and writers, …
This dissertation explores the construction of identity and difference through racial impersonation in Philadelphia’s theatre and performance history. Each chapter expands outward from a local …
This Dissertation explores the interaction of performance and warfare in the framework of colonial and post-colonial times. The issues in question unfold in relationship with …
The Live and the Life-Like: Theater, Performance, Animation explores intersections of stage and screen as it seeks to reveal the laboring, performing body across aesthetic …