{"id":184,"date":"2021-04-21T14:55:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T21:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/devuwcps\/?page_id=184"},"modified":"2021-05-26T16:52:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T23:52:31","slug":"faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwcps\/faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Center for Performance Studies Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"

List of frequent CPS Instructors from around the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington<\/p>\n

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Faculty Name<\/th>\nDepartment<\/th>\nArea of Study<\/th>\nFaculty Home Site<\/th>\nhf:tax:teams<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Adair Rounthwaite<\/a><\/td>\nSchool of Art<\/span><\/td>\nContemporary art, participatory art and performance,<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

school-of-art<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andrew Nestingen<\/a><\/td>\nScandinavian Studies<\/span><\/td>\nScandinavian popular fiction and cinema of the late twentieth century<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

scandinavian-studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams<\/a><\/td>\nScandinavian Studies (Emerita)<\/span><\/td>\nScandinavian Drama, Swedish literature, Strindberg and European Cultural History, Scandinavian Women Writers, Advanced Swedish language<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

scandinavian-studies-emerita<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Anthony Geist<\/a><\/td>\nSpanish and Portuguese Studies<\/span><\/td>\n20th Century Spanish Literature, Surrealism<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

spanish-and-portuguese-studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Barry Witham<\/a><\/td>\nDrama (Emeritus)<\/span><\/td>\nTheatre history<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

drama-emeritus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brigitte Prutti<\/a><\/td>\nGermanics<\/span><\/td>\nEighteenth-century literature, twentieth-century Austrian literature, theory and history of drama.<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

germanics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Catherine Cole<\/a><\/td>\nDance<\/span><\/td>\nHuman rights and performance<\/td>\n\n

\t\tEnglish Dept Site<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, <\/p>\n

\t\tDance Dept Site<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

dance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christina M. Sunardi<\/a><\/td>\nEthnomusicology<\/span><\/td>\nPerforming arts of Java and Bali, gender, and music in the United States.<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

ethnomusicology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cynthia Steele<\/a><\/td>\nComparative Literature (Emerita)<\/span><\/td>\nComparative Literature, Cinema Studies<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

comparative-literature-emerita<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Donald Gilbert-Santamaria<\/a><\/td>\nSpanish and Portuguese Studies<\/span><\/td>\nLiterature and Drama of Early Modern Spain.<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

spanish-and-portuguese-studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Douglas Collins<\/a><\/td>\nFrench (Emeritus)<\/span><\/td>\nTwentieth-century French literature. His particular interests include modern esthetic theory and contemporary intellectual history.<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

french-emeritus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ellwood Wiggins<\/a><\/td>\nGermanics<\/span><\/td>\nThe roles performance and the reception of antiquity play in the protean formation of identities in literature and culture<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

germanics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eric Ames<\/a><\/td>\nComparative Literature, Germanics<\/span><\/td>\nNineteenth-and twentieth-century German literature; cultural studies; film history, theory, and visual culture<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

comparative-literature-germanics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Geoffrey Turnovsky<\/a><\/td>\nFrench and Italian Studies<\/span><\/td>\nLiterature and cultural history of 17th- and 18th-century France<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

french-and-italian-studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Habiba Ibrahim<\/a><\/td>\nEnglish<\/span><\/td>\n20th-century African American Literary and Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, Critical Race Theory<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

english<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James J. Clauss<\/a><\/td>\nClassics<\/span><\/td>\nHellenistic poetry; Republican and Augustan literature; Roman History and Historiography; city of Rome; cinema studies<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

classics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
James Tweedie<\/a><\/td>\nComparative Literature<\/span><\/td>\nGlobal new wave cinemas<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

comparative-literature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan I. Sjavik<\/a><\/td>\nScandinavian Studies (Emeritus)<\/span><\/td>\nCombines the study of critical theory with that of Scandinavian and especially Norwegian literature<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

scandinavian-studies-emeritus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jasmine Mahmoud<\/a><\/td>\nDrama<\/span><\/td>\nTheatre History and Performance Studies<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

drama<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jason Groves<\/a><\/td>\nGermanics<\/span><\/td>\nPerformance Studies, Translation and Interpretation, Ecocriticism, 19th century, 20th century<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

germanics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jeffrey Knight<\/a><\/td>\nEnglish<\/span><\/td>\nRenaissance Literature, Shakespeare, History of the Book, Textual Studies<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

english<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jennifer M Bean<\/a><\/td>\nComparative Literature<\/span><\/td>\nCinema Studies, Comparative Literature and Women's Studies<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

comparative-literature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jennifer Salk<\/a><\/td>\nDance<\/span><\/td>\nModern technique, composition, dance history, teaching methods<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

dance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jos\u00e9 Alaniz<\/a><\/td>\nSlavic Languages and Literatures<\/span><\/td>\nModern Russian culture, especially post-Soviet, including film. Comparative literature.<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

slavic-languages-and-literatures<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Juliet McMains<\/a><\/td>\nDance<\/span><\/td>\nDance ethnography, social dance history, post-structural theory, cultural studies, and feminist theory<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

dance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Justin Jesty<\/a><\/td>\nAsian Languages and Literature<\/span><\/td>\nJapanese, Art History, Film\/Cinema, Literature, Visual Culture<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

asian-languages-and-literature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Katherine Cummings<\/a><\/td>\nEnglish (Emeritus)<\/span><\/td>\nFeminist, psychoanalytical, and literary theory, modern and contemporary literature<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

english-emeritus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kemi Adeyemi<\/a><\/td>\nGender, Women & Sexuality Studies<\/span><\/td>\nQueer theory; queer of color critique; performance theories of the body<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

women-sexuality-studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kolya Rice<\/a><\/td>\nSchool of Art<\/span><\/td>\nArt History<\/td>\n\n

Faculty Website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

school-of-art<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Laurie J. Sears<\/a><\/td>\nHistory (Emerita)<\/span><\/td>\nIndonesia, Southeast Asia, Comparative Colonialisms, Psychoanalysis and Colonialism, Historiography<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

history-emerita<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leigh Mercer<\/a><\/td>\nSpanish and Portuguese Studies<\/span><\/td>\nCutlure, Film\/Cinema, Literature, Visual Culture<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

spanish-and-portuguese-studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Leroy F. Searle<\/a><\/td>\nEnglish (Emeritus)<\/span><\/td>\nLiterary Criticism and Theory, Intellectual History and Philosophy, Photographic Criticism and Theory<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

english-emeritus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael Swaine<\/a><\/td>\nSchool of Art<\/span><\/td>\nCeramics, collaborative work<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

school-of-art<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Odai Johnson<\/a><\/td>\nDrama<\/span><\/td>\nHistory of the theatre<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

drama<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Olga Levaniouk<\/a><\/td>\nComparative Literature<\/span><\/td>\nComparative studies, Greek lyric, Historical linguistics, Homer, Oral traditional poetry<\/td>\n\n

Faculty Website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

comparative-literature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Olivia Gunn<\/a><\/td>\nScandinavian Studies<\/span><\/td>\nScandinavian Literature and Culture, Norwegian, Comparative Literature, Drama, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Novel\/Prose Fiction, Performance Studies, Queer Studies<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

scandinavian-studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paul S. Atkins<\/a><\/td>\nAsian Languages and Literature<\/span><\/td>\nClassical Japanese literature and drama<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

asian-languages-and-literature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raimonda Modiano<\/a><\/td>\nComparative Literature<\/span>, English (Emeritus)<\/span><\/td>\nComparative Literature, Coleridge, Textual Studies<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFAculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

comparative-literature english-emeritus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ruby Blondell<\/a><\/td>\nClassics<\/span><\/td>\nGreek 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.<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

classics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sabine Wilke<\/a><\/td>\nGermanics<\/span><\/td>\nCritical theory, contemporary theater and film, literature and philosophy<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

germanics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scott Magelssen<\/a><\/td>\nDrama<\/span><\/td>\nTheatre History<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

drama<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shannon Dudley<\/a><\/td>\nEthnomusicology<\/span><\/td>\nMusic of Latin America and the Caribbean, American popular music, Music in American Cultures, World Music, community music<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

ethnomusicology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sonnet H. Retman<\/a><\/td>\nAmerican Ethnic Studies<\/span><\/td>\nAfrican-American literature and culture; critical race theory; feminism; American ethnic studies; popular music and film[button<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

american-ethnic-studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stefka Mihaylova<\/a><\/td>\nDrama<\/span><\/td>\nGender and racial aspects of spectatorship in contemporary American and British feminist theatre<\/td>\n[button\u00a0 url=”https:\/\/drama.washington.edu\/people\/stefka-mihaylova”]Faculty Website[\/button]\n<\/td>\ndrama<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sudhir Mahadevan<\/a><\/td>\nComparative Literature<\/span><\/td>\nCommercial history of early cinema and its intersection with the technologies of print and photography in South Asia<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

comparative-literature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Susan Gaylard<\/a><\/td>\nFrench and Italian Studies<\/span><\/td>\nThe early modern period in Italy, in particular the intersection between literature and material culture.<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

french-and-italian-studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Susan Glenn<\/a><\/td>\nHistory<\/span><\/td>\nTwentieth American cultural and social history<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

history<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Terje I. Leiren<\/a><\/td>\nScandinavian Studies (Emeritus)<\/span><\/td>\nNorwegian studies, primarily 19th and early-20th century Norwegian history and the cultural history of Norwegian-America<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

scandinavian-studies-emeritus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thomas Lockwood<\/a><\/td>\nEnglish (Emeritus)<\/span><\/td>\nRestoration and eighteenth-century British literature.<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

english-emeritus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thomas Postlewait<\/a><\/td>\nDrama (Emeritus)<\/span><\/td>\nTheatre History and Culture<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

drama-emeritus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tikka Sears<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
William R. Streitberger<\/a><\/td>\nEnglish<\/span><\/td>\nSixteenth and Seventeenth Century British History, Literature, and Drama; world drama; textual theory and practice.<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

english<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yomi Braester<\/a><\/td>\nComparative Literature<\/span><\/td>\nLiterary and visual practices, with emphasis on modern China and Taiwan\u2014in architecture, advertisement, screen media, and stage arts<\/td>\n\n

\t\tFaculty Website<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

comparative-literature<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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