Bruce McConachie

Chair/Professor
Department of Theatre Arts
412-624-6156
bamcco@pitt.edu

Bruce McConachie is the Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts as of the 2006-07 academic year. Formerly Director of Graduate Studies, he served as interim chair during 2003-04.

A specialist in American-theatre history and theatre historiography, his major publications include: Theatre for Working-Class Audiences in the U.S. (1985); Interpreting the Theatrical Past (with Thomas Postlewait, 1989); Melodramatic Formations: Theatre and Society in the U.S., 1820-1870 (1992); "American Theatre in Context: From the Beginnings to 1870," Cambridge History of the American Theatre, vol 1 (1998); and American Theatre in the Culture of the Cold War: Producing and Contesting Containment, 1947–1962 (2003).

Professor McConachie has served the academic field of theatre studies on several boards of directors and as the Presidents of the American Theatre and Drama Society and the American Society for Theatre Research. In addition, he continues to act and direct occasionally in Pittsburgh. Most recently, he directed Uncle Vanya for University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre.

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Books

Latest Book

Performance and Cognition (Co-edited)

Read the preface (DOC)
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Other Books

American Theatre in the Culture of the Cold War

Bruce McConachie also contributed to Virtual Vaudeville