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Center for Performance Studies Faculty

List of frequent CPS Instructors from around the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington


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Adair Rounthwaite School of Art Contemporary art, participatory art and performance,

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Andrew Nestingen Scandinavian Studies Scandinavian popular fiction and cinema of the late twentieth century

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scandinavian-studies
Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams Scandinavian Studies (Emerita) Scandinavian Drama, Swedish literature, Strindberg and European Cultural History, Scandinavian Women Writers, Advanced Swedish language

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Anthony Geist Spanish and Portuguese Studies 20th Century Spanish Literature, Surrealism

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spanish-and-portuguese-studies
Barry Witham Drama (Emeritus) Theatre history

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drama-emeritus
Brigitte Prutti Germanics Eighteenth-century literature, twentieth-century Austrian literature, theory and history of drama.

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germanics
Catherine Cole Dance Human rights and performance

English Dept Site,

Dance Dept Site

dance
Christina M. Sunardi Ethnomusicology Performing arts of Java and Bali, gender, and music in the United States.

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ethnomusicology
Cynthia Steele Comparative Literature (Emerita) Comparative Literature, Cinema Studies

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comparative-literature-emerita
Donald Gilbert-Santamaria Spanish and Portuguese Studies Literature and Drama of Early Modern Spain.

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spanish-and-portuguese-studies
Douglas Collins French (Emeritus) Twentieth-century French literature. His particular interests include modern esthetic theory and contemporary intellectual history.

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french-emeritus
Ellwood Wiggins Germanics The roles performance and the reception of antiquity play in the protean formation of identities in literature and culture

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germanics
Eric Ames Comparative Literature, Germanics Nineteenth-and twentieth-century German literature; cultural studies; film history, theory, and visual culture

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comparative-literature-germanics
Geoffrey Turnovsky French and Italian Studies Literature and cultural history of 17th- and 18th-century France

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french-and-italian-studies
Habiba Ibrahim English 20th-century African American Literary and Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, Critical Race Theory

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english
James J. Clauss Classics Hellenistic poetry; Republican and Augustan literature; Roman History and Historiography; city of Rome; cinema studies

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classics
James Tweedie Comparative Literature Global new wave cinemas

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comparative-literature
Jan I. Sjavik Scandinavian Studies (Emeritus) Combines the study of critical theory with that of Scandinavian and especially Norwegian literature

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Jasmine Mahmoud Drama Theatre History and Performance Studies

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drama
Jason Groves Germanics Performance Studies, Translation and Interpretation, Ecocriticism, 19th century, 20th century

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germanics
Jeffrey Knight English Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare, History of the Book, Textual Studies

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english
Jennifer M Bean Comparative Literature Cinema Studies, Comparative Literature and Women's Studies

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comparative-literature
Jennifer Salk Dance Modern technique, composition, dance history, teaching methods

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dance
José Alaniz Slavic Languages and Literatures Modern Russian culture, especially post-Soviet, including film. Comparative literature.

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Juliet McMains Dance Dance ethnography, social dance history, post-structural theory, cultural studies, and feminist theory

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dance
Justin Jesty Asian Languages and Literature Japanese, Art History, Film/Cinema, Literature, Visual Culture

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Katherine Cummings English (Emeritus) Feminist, psychoanalytical, and literary theory, modern and contemporary literature

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english-emeritus
Kemi Adeyemi Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Queer theory; queer of color critique; performance theories of the body

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women-sexuality-studies
Kolya Rice School of Art Art History

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school-of-art
Laurie J. Sears History (Emerita) Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Comparative Colonialisms, Psychoanalysis and Colonialism, Historiography

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history-emerita
Leigh Mercer Spanish and Portuguese Studies Cutlure, Film/Cinema, Literature, Visual Culture

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spanish-and-portuguese-studies
Leroy F. Searle English (Emeritus) Literary Criticism and Theory, Intellectual History and Philosophy, Photographic Criticism and Theory

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english-emeritus
Michael Swaine School of Art Ceramics, collaborative work

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school-of-art
Odai Johnson Drama History of the theatre

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drama
Olga Levaniouk Comparative Literature Comparative studies, Greek lyric, Historical linguistics, Homer, Oral traditional poetry

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comparative-literature
Olivia Gunn Scandinavian Studies Scandinavian Literature and Culture, Norwegian, Comparative Literature, Drama, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Novel/Prose Fiction, Performance Studies, Queer Studies

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scandinavian-studies
Paul S. Atkins Asian Languages and Literature Classical Japanese literature and drama

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Raimonda Modiano Comparative Literature, English (Emeritus) Comparative Literature, Coleridge, Textual Studies

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Ruby Blondell Classics Greek tragedy, Platonic dialogue, and the reception of myth in contemporary culture (especially popular film and television), informed by gender studies and performative aspects of ancient Greek culture.

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classics
Sabine Wilke Germanics Critical theory, contemporary theater and film, literature and philosophy

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germanics
Scott Magelssen Drama Theatre History

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drama
Shannon Dudley Ethnomusicology Music of Latin America and the Caribbean, American popular music, Music in American Cultures, World Music, community music

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ethnomusicology
Sonnet H. Retman American Ethnic Studies African-American literature and culture; critical race theory; feminism; American ethnic studies; popular music and film[button

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Stefka Mihaylova Drama Gender and racial aspects of spectatorship in contemporary American and British feminist theatre [button  url=”https://drama.washington.edu/people/stefka-mihaylova”]Faculty Website[/button] drama
Sudhir Mahadevan Comparative Literature Commercial history of early cinema and its intersection with the technologies of print and photography in South Asia

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comparative-literature
Susan Gaylard French and Italian Studies The early modern period in Italy, in particular the intersection between literature and material culture.

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french-and-italian-studies
Susan Glenn History Twentieth American cultural and social history

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history
Terje I. Leiren Scandinavian Studies (Emeritus) Norwegian studies, primarily 19th and early-20th century Norwegian history and the cultural history of Norwegian-America

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Thomas Lockwood English (Emeritus) Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature.

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english-emeritus
Thomas Postlewait Drama (Emeritus) Theatre History and Culture

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drama-emeritus
Tikka Sears
William R. Streitberger English Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century British History, Literature, and Drama; world drama; textual theory and practice.

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english
Yomi Braester Comparative Literature Literary and visual practices, with emphasis on modern China and Taiwan—in architecture, advertisement, screen media, and stage arts

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