Research/Areas of Interest
Theatre History and Intellectual History; Performance Theory; Social Theory; Phenomenology
Education
- BA, English, Rhetoric, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, United States, 1999
- MA, Brown University, Providence, United States, 2001
- PhD, Brown University, Providence, United States, 2008
Biography
Pannill Camp studies the history of modern Western theatre and its involvement with intellectual history, with particular emphasis on Enlightenment thought and performance in France. His publications have examined the reform of French theatre architecture during the second half of the eighteenth century, the performance practices and stage representations of Freemasonry in eighteenth-century France, and phenomenological theories of theatrical performance. His present research examines the intellectual history of performance theory, specifically the links that tie contemporary conceptions of social performance to classical sociological theory and to Enlightenment political thought. He has won the Oscar Brockett Essay prize (2024), and his first book received an honorable mention for the ATHE Outstanding Book Award (2015) and was short-listed for the Kenshur Prize in Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Pannill is the producing co-host for On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast (www.ontappod.com), which has been in production since 2016.
Before coming to Tufts, Pannill taught for sixteen years at Washington University in St. Louis, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard's Mahindra Center. He grew up in Aurora, Colorado.
Pannill is the producing co-host for On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast (www.ontappod.com), which has been in production since 2016.
Before coming to Tufts, Pannill taught for sixteen years at Washington University in St. Louis, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard's Mahindra Center. He grew up in Aurora, Colorado.