Congratulations to Payne Banister for finishing coursework in the fall!
Congratulations to Alison Mahoney for successfully defending their comprehensive exam and dissertation prospectus!
Payne Banister published their article, “Masquerading Resistance: The Parasitic Tactics of the Mandrake Ball” in the Spring 2024 issue of the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.
Karim Chebli defended his MFA thesis, “An Ethnotheatrical Approach to Teaching the History of the Lebanese War,” and graduated in Spring 2024. Hansel Tan defended his MFA thesis, “The Art of Transformation: Performance Pedagogy, Embodied Cognition, and Metamorphosis as Method” and graduated in Summer 2024. This fall, Karim will be a lecturer at the University of Virginia and Hansel will be an Assistant Professor at Villanova University.
Congratulations to Liz Kurtzman for successfully defending her comprehensive exams and dissertation prospectus during the Fall 2023 semester!
Congratulations to Patrick Mullen for finishing his graduate seminar coursework in the fall!
This summer we had three PhD students who defended their dissertations. Le’Mil Eiland defended his dissertation, “"The Black Archives: Fugitive Histories on the Run" and this year, he is an Assistant Professor of Theatre History at Illinois State University. Andrea Gunoe defended her dissertation, "March of Militarism: Contemporary Nationalism Through Military Spectacle" and is a limited term Assistant Professor at Kennesaw State University. Chris Staley defended his dissertation, ““What’s the Point?
Congratulations to Alison Mahoney for finishing course work and Victoria LaFave for passing her comprehensive exams!
Congratulations to Courtney Colligan and Shea Hwang who defended their dissertations in July and graduated in August 2002! Courtney Colligan defended her dissertation, “Freedom is a Practice: The Praxis of Postcarceral Performance in the United Kingdom and the United States” This year she will be a Visiting Instructor in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women Studies program at Pitt and is also an adjunct instructor for Theatre teaching Intro to Dramatic Art. Shea Hwang defended her dissertation ‘An Island of Death’: Crumpled Childhood, Performance, and the Jeju
Congratulations to Liz Kurtzman and Victoria LaFave for completing their department coursework!
Victoria LaFave received an honorable mention for the 2021 Tamara Horowitz Graduate Student Paper Prize from Pitt’s Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program.
Courtney Colligan, who was selected as a 2021 National Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral Career Diversity Workshop Fellow.
Emma Squire, who was awarded the 2020 American Society for Theatre Research’s Helen Chinoy Dissertation Fellowship.
The department welcomes two new PhD students, Alison Mahoney and José Alba Rodriguez.