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Noe Montez
Associate Professor and Department Chair of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Theatre and Performance Studies
Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the Americas, Latinx and Latin American Theatre, Sport as Performance, Critical University Studies, 20th and 21st Century Modernist and Post-Modernist Theatre, Theoretical Approaches to Memory and Commemoration
Jaclyn Waguespack
Senior Lecturer and Director of Dance
Dance Program
Katherine Brook
Lecturer
Jennifer Burton
Professor of the Practice
Theatre and Performance Studies
Renata Celichowska
Senior Lecturer
Dance Program
Linda Girard
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Theatre and Performance Studies
Barbara Wallace Grossman
Professor
Theatre and Performance Studies
American popular entertainment, musical theatre, women in theatre, the Holocaust/Genocide on stage and screen, voice and speech, stage directing, theatre and social change
Khary Jones
Professor of the Practice
Theatre and Performance Studies
Kareem Khubchandani
Associate Professor
Theatre and Performance Studies
Performance Studies; queer studies; South Asian studies
Brian Lilienthal
Senior Lecturer
Theatre and Performance Studies
Lilian Mengesha
Fletcher Foundation Assistant Professor of Dramatic Literature
Theatre and Performance Studies
Critical Indigenous Studies, Performance Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Heather S. Nathans
Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
Theatre and Performance Studies
Tasha Oren
Associate Professor and Director of Film and Media Studies
Theatre and Performance Studies
Maurice Parent
Professor of the Practice
Theatre and Performance Studies
Meghan Pearson
Lecturer
Theatre and Performance Studies
Jessica Pizzuti
Lecturer
Theatre and Performance Studies
Marisa Plasencia
Artist in Residence
Ted Simpson
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Theatre and Performance Studies
Adam Smith
Lecturer
Theatre and Performance Studies
Jo Williams
Senior Lecturer
Theatre and Performance Studies
Part-time Faculty
Ryan Adelsheim
Lecturer
Ian Berg
Lecturer
Dance Program
Akeem Celestine
Lecturer
Genevieve Du Paul
Lecturer
Shefali Jain
Lecturer
Chelsea Kerl
Lecturer
Jennifer Lustig
Lecturer
Dance Program
Stav Marin
Visiting Artist
Daniel McCusker
Senior Lecturer
Bridget O'Leary
Lecturer
Theatre and Performance Studies
Jenny Oliver
Lecturer
Dance Program
Holly Stone
Lecturer
Taylor Travassos-Lomba
Lecturer
Dance Program
Neta Weiner
Visiting Artist
Ruka White
Lecturer
Dance Program
Emeriti Faculty
Downing Cless
Associate Professor Emeritus
Laurence Senelick
Fletcher Professor of Oratory Emeritus
Sheriden Thomas
Senior Lecturer Emerita
Theatre and Performance Studies
Performing Physical Comedy - Clown Acting Shakespeare Directing Theatre Careers in Theatre Actor's Mask Work Tai Chi & Qi Gong Tao Te Ching
Alice Trexler
Associate Professor Emerita
