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Overview of the Program

The Ph.D. program provides comprehensive training in theatre and performance scholarship with a dual emphasis on theatre and performance history and dramatic theory.  Particular strengths of the program include American, English and Classical studies, race and gender studies, semiotics, Asian and post-colonial theory.  The three-year plan of study addresses a full range of Western and Non-Western materials from the ancient to the postmodern.

Graduates of the program have gone on to careers as university professors, arts administrators, dramaturgs and critics.  Most applicants have theatre degrees and stage experience, but production work is not an integral part of the doctoral program.  The enrollment is small, and individual attention to scholarly projects shapes the student's experience throughout the course of study.  Whatever their particular interests, Ph.D. students are expected to develop the broadest possible understanding of theatre theory and history.

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