Department Bibliography of Publications & Conferences

2024

Mahoney, Alison  “Building Cultures of Access in University Theatre: Reflections on Corsicana at the University of Pittsburgh,” Accessibility Special Session, Mid-America Theatre Conference, March 2024. 

2023

Banister,  Payne  “Theatre Archives as a Site of Hope: American Theatre Archive Project Workshop.” Co-Convener with Ken Cerniglia. American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Providence, RI

Banister, Payne  “The Werk of Working It: Drag Entertainers’ (Precarious) Labors of Love.” Working Group: “Rethinking Potentiality” American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Providence, RI

Granshaw, Michelle, Mia Levenson, Courtney Colligan, Mac Irvine, Victoria LaFave, Noe Montez, and Elizabeth Son. “Imagining New Possibilities: Career Diversity and Doctoral Education in Theatre and Performance Studies.” Theatre Topics 33, no. 3 (November 2023): 149-158.

Granshaw, Michelle. Participant and Working Group co-organizer. “The Historicity of Hope: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 and U.S. Theatre Historiography” for the working group “Historiographies of Hope: Explorations in Theatre Historiography.” American Society for Theatre Research, Providence, Rhode Island, November 2023.

Granshaw, Michelle. Respondent for the Humanities Center Colloquium, “Grand Concertos and Partidas: Coloniality and Race in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro’s Concert Music,” University of Pittsburgh, September 21, 2023. 

Granshaw, Michelle. “Re-Envisioning the Humanities Ph.D. for the 21st Century” roundtable, Out of the Margins: Re-focusing Performance Scholarship for the 21st Century symposium, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of Maryland, March 9, 2023. (invited talk)

Granshaw, Michelle. Book Duet with James Coleman for Irish on the Move and Sudden Frenzy, Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh, March 1, 2023. 

Granshaw, Michelle. “Careers Beyond Academia,” School of Drama, University of Washington, February 24, 2023. (virtual, invited talk)

Mahoney, Alison  “Building Cultures of Access in University Theatre: Reflections on Corsicana at the University of Pittsburgh,” Disability Performance Cultures Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research Conference, November 2023. 

Mahoney, Alison  “Staging Freak Performers in a New Disability Theatre: John Belluso's Traveling Skin,” Performance and Disability Working Group, International Federation for Theatre Research Conference, July 2023

Miller, Frederick D. . “Enter the Mouse: How Disney Transformed Broadway with a Beauty and a Beast.” Theatre History Symposium. Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC). March 2023.

2022

George, Kathy  Mirth, Regal House publishing, 2022

Granshaw, Michelle. “Theatre.” In American Literature in Transition: The Long Nineteenth Century, 1820-1860. Ed. Justine Murison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 164-179. 

Granshaw, Michelle, “The Fight for Theatre Desegregation and the Crisis Dramaturgy of Post-Civil War Black Activism,” American Society for Theatre Research, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2022.

Granshaw, Michelle,  co-organizer, co-chair and panelist, “Imagining New Possibilities: Career Diversity and Doctoral Education in Theatre and Performance Studies,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Detroit, Michigan, July 2022.

LaFave, Victoria. "At Your Service: The Cap and Gown Club and the Zany Work of the Gender Binary." Performance Studies Focus Group Emerging Scholars Panel, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, July 2022.

LaFave, Victoria. "Imagining New Possibilities: Career Diversity and Doctoral Education in Theatre and Performance Studies," Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, July 2022.

Mahoney, Alison  “The ‘Original Siamese Twins’ Across Time: Casting and Embodiment in John Belluso’s Traveling Skin,” Disability Performance Cultures Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research Conference, November 2022

Staley, Christopher “Imaginative Deixis and Distributed Fictions in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training.” In Teaching Performance Practices in Remote and Hybrid Spaces. Edited by Jeanmarie Higgins and Elisha Clark Halpin. Routledge, 2022.

Staley, Christopher "Fear of Death and Lyrical Flight: Mortality Salience Mediation in Fun Home." In Theatre and the Macabre. Edited by Meredith Conti and Kevin Wetmore. Cardiff: Wales University Press and University of Chicago Press, 2022.

2021

Croot, Cynthia  “Venus Onstage” Africana Studies and the English Department. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

Granshaw, Michelle. “Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl,” post-show talk and discussion, Metropolitan Playhouse, New York, New York, April 2021.  

Granshaw, Michelle. “Dramaturgies in Practice: Irish-American Theatre and Performances of Mobility,” University of Lille, March 4, 2021.

LaFave, Victoria. "Touched by History: Senti-Mental Embodiment in the Titanic Museum Attraction," UCLA Theater and Performance Studies Graduate Conference, February 2021.

LaFave, Victoria, Victoria. Humanists of Impact: Arts and Sciences with Humanities Engage at the University of Pittsburgh, September 13, 2021.

LaFave, Victoria. “Outside is Just the Tip of the Iceberg”: Branson Titanic and Cultural Memory," American Society for Theatre Research, October 2021.

Mahoney, Alison “Oily Cart’s Space to Be: Exploring the Carer’s Role in Sensory Theatre for Neurodiverse Audiences During COVID-19.” Theatre Survey 62, no. 3 (2021): 340–343.

Mahoney, Alison  “Devising Access Intimacy: Lessons from Oily Cart’s ‘Uncancellable’ Season,” Directing Focus Group, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference, August 2022. 

Mahoney, Alison  “Performing Fetal Drag: Drag Syndrome’s Queer/Crip (Re)Imagining in Grand Rapids.” Queer Nightlife Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference, San Diego, CA, October 2021. 

Mahoney, Alison  “Oily Cart’s ‘Un-Cancellable Season’: Sensory Theatre for Neurodiverse Audiences During Covid-19.” Performance Studies Focus Group Emerging Scholars Panel, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference, August 2021. 

Mahoney, Alison  “Embodying the Eugenic Atlantic: Audience Engagement with Minstrel Performance.” Theatre History Debut Panel, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference, August 2021. 

Mahoney, Alison “Oily Cart’s ‘Un-Cancellable Season’: Sensory Theatre for Neurodiverse Audiences During Covid-19.” Performance and Disability Working Group, International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) Conference, July 2021. 

Mahoney, Alison “Queer/Crip Intersections: Drag Syndrome’s Collective De/Politicization of Disability.” University of Pittsburgh Grad Expo, March 2021. 

Mahoney, Alison “Oily Cart’s ‘Un-Cancellable Season’: Sensory Theatre for Neurodiverse Audiences During Covid-19.” UCLA Theatre & Performance Studies Graduate Student Conference, February 2021. 

Staley, Christopher “Animalizing the Performed Corpse: Terror Management Theory and The Burial at Thebes.” Panel on Representations of Death in American Drama, sponsored by American Theatre and Drama Society, at Comparative Drama Conference. Orlando, FL. October 14-16, 2021.

Staley, Christopher “Re-Positionality: Multi-Podal Deixis in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training. Theory and Criticism Roundtable. Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Austin, TX, August 2021.

Staley, Christopher “Imaginative Deixis and Distributed Fictions in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training.” Panel on Imagination and Social Distanced Pedagogy, Acting Program. Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Austin, TX, August 2021.

Staley, Christopher “Greetings from the Edge/End of the Earth/World: Sekai No Hate Kara Konnichiwa as Multipodal Macbeth.” Re-Mapping Shakespeare: Hybridity, Diversity, and Adaptation Seminar. European Shakespeare Research Association Conference. June 3-6, 2021.

Staley, Christopher “Asymptotic Time: Multipodal Rhythms in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training.” The Makings of the Actor Online International Conference: Rhythm in Acting and Performance, in collaboration with Leeds Conservatoire, Leeds, UK and the Labanarium. March 26-28, 2021.

Staley, Christopher “Active Analysis in Immersive Classrooms: Language Acquisition, Acting, and ‘Performing Japanese Culture.’” American Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference. March 25-27, 2021.

Staley, Christopher "The Traditional Antinomy of Suzuki Tadashi’s Theatre: Globalism and Interculturalism as Multipodal Performance.” UCLA Theatre and Performance Studies Graduate Conference, “Contact: Performing Proximity.” February 2021.

2020

Alguire, Eben "Not Just Another Virtual Graduation" in Theatre Design & Technology (Summer 2020), pages 27 -30.

Barilar, Nic   “Beckett’s Queer Time of Défaillance: Ritual and Resistance in Happy Days,” in Beckett Beyond the Normal, edited by Seán Kennedy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 105–16.

Barilar, Nic  “The Politics of Inaction: The Algerian War and Samuel Beckett’s Act Without Words I.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Theatre History and Theory and Criticism Focus Groups. Digital Conference. Panel Organizer.

Granshaw, Michelle. "Performing the Northern Athens: Dr. Corry's Diorama of Ireland and the Belfast Riot of 1864." Theatre Survey 61.1 (January 2020): 102-128. 

Granshaw, Michelle. “The Character of the Nation: The Right to Amusement and Black Protest after Emancipation.” Mid-America Theatre Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 2020.  

Granshaw, Michelle. First Time Authors Roundtable. Mid-America Theatre Conference. Chicago, Illinois, March 2020.  

2019

Barilar, Nic  “Irish and Hoosier Memories in the World Premiere of Seán O’Casey’s The Drums of Father Ned.” American Society for Theatre Research. Transnational Performance Working Group. Arlington, VA.

Barilar, Nic  “Bringing James Joyce Back to Dublin: From Censorship to Performance.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Theatre History Focus Group. Orlando, FL. Session Coordinator. Panel Organizer.

Barilar, Nic  “A Mime in the Desert: Samuel Beckett’s Act Without Words I, the Algerian War, and the Invention of Decolonization.” Mid-America Theatre Conference. Cleveland, OH.

Croot, Cynthia “Taking Refuge: A case study in interdisciplinary and community-based diversity research.” Diversity Dialogs, David Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership, University of Pittsburgh, PA, Information Age Publishing.

Croot, Cynthia  “What Happens in the Restaurant Stays in the Restaurant” Devised Theatre Panel. Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Orlando, FL

Granshaw, Michelle. Irish on the Move: Performing Mobility in American Variety Theatre. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019.

Granshaw, Michelle. “Inventing the Tramp: The Early Comic Tramp on the Variety Stage.” Theatre History Studies 38 (2019): 199-208. Mid-America Theatre Conference Robert A. Schanke Theatre Research Award conference paper.

Granshaw, Michelle. “Theatrical Boston, 1880-1930.” In Atlas of Boston History: The Making of a City. Ed. Nancy S. Seasholes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.

McKelvey, Patrick   “A Disabled Actor Prepares: Stanislavsky, Disability, and Work at the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped.” Theatre Journal 71.1: 69-89.

McKelvey, Patrick   (Book Review) Unfinished Business: Michael Jackson, Detroit, and the Figural Economy of American Deindustrialization by Judith Hamera. Journal of American Drama and Theatre. 31.1.

McKelvey, Patrick   “Bureaucratic Drag.” American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Arlington. (Plenary Talk)

Staley, Christopher “Practicable Empathy in Acting: Empathic Projection in Sophocles’ Ajax.” In Empathy: Emotional, Ethical, and Epistemological Narratives. Edited by Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2019.

2018

Barilar, Nic “Censoring Arousal, Arousing Censorship: Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo in Dublin, 1957.” American Society for Theatre Research. Impotent Performance Working Group. San Diego, CA.

Brewster, Shelby  DODO by Bricolage Production Company. Theatre Journal 70, no. 2 (December 2018): 544-5.

George, Kathleen. The Blues Walked In. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.

Granshaw, Michelle. “Inventing the Tramp: The Early Tramp Comic on the Variety Stage,” Popular Entertainment Studies 9, no. 1-2 (2018): 44-63.

Granshaw, Michelle. Respondent for the Humanities Center Colloquium for Jason Fitzgerald, “The Great Immensity and Climate Activism’s Failed Arousals,” University of Pittsburgh, October 4, 2018.

Granshaw, Michelle. “Inventing the Tramp: The Early Comic Tramp on the Variety Stage.” Mid-America Theatre Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 2018.

2017

Barilar, Nic. "Never Forget, Never Forgive: Violence and Audience Complicity in the 2005 Revival of Sweeney Todd." Working Group: Violent Bodies, Violent Acts. Co-convener of Working Group. American Society for Theatre Research. Atlanta, GA. 16-19 November 2017.

Barlar, Nic. "'Just genuine pure filth!': Censorship, Sex, and the Queer Politics of Failure in Happy Days." Samuel Beckett Society Conference. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 27-29 July 2017.

Brewster, Shelby. “Plastics and Post-Human Bodies: Performative Speculation in the Anthropocene.” From the Curious to the Quantum: Bodies at the Intersection of Science and Performance Working Group. American Society for Theatre Research. Atlanta, GA. November 2017.

Brewster, Shelby. “Food Futures: Speculative Performance in the Anthropocene.” The Journal of American Drama and Theatre 29, no. 2 (Spring 2017).

Brewster, Shelby. “‘That was then. This is now.’: Interrogating Nature at the Center for PostNatural History.” Desert of the Real: Institutionalizing Simulacra Roundtable. Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Las Vegas, NV. August 2017.

Brewster, Shelby. “‘Yesterday’s Meat Tomorrow:’ Speculative Performance in the Anthropocene.” Canadian Association for Theatre Research. Toronto, Canada. May 2017.

Brewster, Shelby. “The Future of Memory in Marjorie Prime and Futurity.” Science Fiction at the Theatre Panel. Comparative Drama Conference. Orlando, FL. April 2017.

2016

Barilar, Nic. "Negotiating Local and Transnational Amateur Performance in the World Premiere of O'Casey's The Drums of Father Ned." Working Group: Amateur Acts. American Society for Theatre Research. Minneapolis, MN. 3-6 November 2016.

Barilar, Nic. "Theatre of Terror: Re-thinking Foucault's Spectacle of the Scaffold in Yussef El Guindi's Back of the Throat." Comparative Drama Conference. Baltimore, MD. 31 March - 2 April 2016.

Brewster, Shelby. “Scientific Literacy and Authority in the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Project.” American Theatre and Drama Society Graduate Student Fellows Preconference. Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Chicago, IL. August 2016.

Croot, Cynthia “Venus Embodied,” Theatre Forum. Volume 49. UC San Diego press, 2016.

Croot, Cynthia   “The Collaborative Relationship between Director and Vocal Coach: Synergy II” Presented in collaboration with Professor Stacey Cabaj. Southeastern Theatre Conference, Greensboro, NC

Croot, Cynthia   “One Large.” Theatre Communications Group Conference, Washington, DC

Croot, Cynthia   “Clarify: The big issues, minus the noise.” Sponsored by Spotify, Mic and HeadCount and WeShouldDoItAll. Spotify. Exploring the connections between music, art, and income inequality. SPACE Gallery. Pittsburgh, PA

Hoskins, Vicki. “’A Song That Hits You So Hard’: Emotion, Affect, and Silence in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” Song, Stage, and Screen XI. New York, NY, June 2016.

2015

Appler, Vivian. "Telescopic (mis)Information on the Seventeenth Century Stage." Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC) Annual Meeting. Kansas City, MO. March 21, 2015.

Granshaw, Michelle. “Performing Cultural Memory:  The Traveling Hibernicon and the Transnational Irish Community in the United States and Australia.” Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 41, no. 2 (Winter 2014): 76-101. 

Granshaw, Michelle. “'The Acting and Songs Take with the Irish People': Building the New York Catholic Church through Theatrical Benefits." Presented in the working group “‘For the Benefit of’: The Stakes of Theatrical Benefits as Social Activism.” Working Group Co-Organizer. American Society for Theatre Research, Portland, OR, November 2015.

Granshaw, Michelle. Respondent, “Supporting Roles in the Archive: Forgotten Figures.” Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference (ATHE), Montreal, Canada, August 2015.

Granshaw, Michelle. “Performing the ‘Northern Athens’: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth Century Belfast.” Presented at the Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), Kansas City, KS, March 2015.

Harkulich Molldrem, Christiana. “Representational Politics/Politics of Representation: Indigenous Performance as Activism in Princess White Deer's Vaudeville Act"  In the "Mobilizing Effective Scholarship and Performance Today: Advocacy and Activism in Indigenous Research and Performance in the Americas" working group. American Society for Theatre Research. Portland, OR. November 2015. (Paper)

Harkulich Molldrem, Christiana. “Buried Next to the Star: Sally Mercer and the Invisibility of the Dresser in 19th  Century theatre.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Montreal, CA. August 2015 (paper)

Harkulich Molldrem, Christiana. “Gothic Native Bodies: Power and Supernatural Performance in the Early Republic.” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Raleigh, NC. July 2015 (paper).

Harkulich Molldrem, Christiana. “’The Wonder Show!’ Cervantes and Roman Comedy”. Class Acts II: Roman Comedy and its Reception, University of Pittsburgh.  March 2015 (Invited talk and play reading)

Pérez IV, José. "Fight Theatre: Experiments in Site-Specific Fights and Audience-Combatants" The Fight Master, Spring Issue 2015.

Pérez IV, José. "Stage Combat: Telekinetic Powers Fighting" and "Creating Site-Specific Theatre" Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), Chattanooga, TN. March 2015.

Syler, Claire. “Dialogic Reflections of Will Power to Youth.” Articles-in-Progress Symposium.,Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC) Annual Meeting. Kansas City, MO. March 21, 2015.

Syler, Claire. "Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies ed. by Caoimhe McAvinchey (review)." Modern Drama 58.1 (2015): 142-145.

Wood, Peter. “Spoken Roses.” Staged Reading at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, Playwriting Symposium’s Dramatists Play Lab, Kansas City MO, March 19-21, 2015.

Wood, Peter. “Deep Time and Digital Archives: The Limits of 1s and 0s.” The Stakes of Digital Scholarship of Theatre and Performance Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Portland OR, November 5-8, 2015.

Wright, David. “University of Pittsburgh Randall Family Big Idea Competition.” Radio. University of Pittsburgh. KQV 1410AM, April 8, 2015.

2014

Barilar, Nic. "Beckett and Censorship; or 'It must mean something or they wouldn't keep it.'" Samuel Beckett Society Panel. South-Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, GA. 7-9 November 2014.

Bisaha, David. "Visualizing Postmemory on Documentary Stages: Postmemorial Dramaturgies in Annulla: An Autobiography and I Am My Own Wife." Text and Presentation, 2013. The Comparative Drama Conference Series. Ed. Graley Herren. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Forthcoming.

Croot, Cynthia   “After the Freak Show and Still on Display.” Africana Studies and the English Department. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.

Croot, Cynthia  “Devised Solo Performance: Creating Work from Scratch.” Presenter. Southeastern Theatre Conference, Mobile, AL               

Croot, Cynthia  “The Collaborative Relationship between Director and Vocal Coach: Synergy.” Co-presenter with Stacey Cabaj. Southeastern Theatre Conference, Mobile, AL

George, Kathy. A Measure of Blood. MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2014.

George, Kathy. The Johnstown Girls. Pittsburgh PA: Univeristy of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.

George, Kathy. Review. Bark by Lorrie Moore. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 9 2014.

Granshaw, Michelle. “Rethinking Work in the Nineteenth Century Theatre: Moving Panoramas, Dioramas, and International Theatrical Touring.” Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research, Baltimore, MD, November 2014.

Granshaw, Michelle. “Revising Myths: Theatre, the Molly Maguires, and Labor in Nineteenth Century America.” MATC, Cleveland, OH, March 2014.

Granshaw, Michelle. “The Mysterious Victory of the Newsboys: The Grand Duke Theatre’s 1874 Challenge to the Theatre Licensing Law.” Theatre Survey 55.1 (January 2014): 48-80.

Good, Kristi. "Sebastian Barry's Ancestors Cycle: Towards Healing and Redefining Irish Identity." Presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies/Canadian Association for Irish Studies, Dublin, Ireland, June 11-13 2014.

Good, Kristi. "Marilyn Monroe: Soldier in Greasepaint." Theatre History Studies, Special Issue, Theatres of War: Nationhood, Revolution, and Identity. Forthcoming.

Harkulich Molldrem, Christiana. “Sustaining life: Corn as a performing object in the Indigenous Identities of the Americas” in the “I Object! Non-human Performances and (re)Considerations of Indigenous Identities” working group. American Society for Theatre Research. Baltimore, MD. November 2014. (Paper)

Harkulich Molldrem, Christiana. “Daughters of La Malinche: Jesusa Rodriguez and the queer revisioning of the origins of Mestizaje”. Mid-America Theatre Conference, Cleveland, OH. March 2014. (Paper)

Hoskins, Vicki. "’This Cold World Will Remember Us’": Gruesome Memory in Bonnie & Clyde.” Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Scottsdale AZ, July 2014.

Hoskins, Vicki. “Marketing Musicals: Commercializing the Avant-Garde in Spring Awakening.” Studies in Musical Theatre 7.3 (March 2014): 359-368.

O'Rourke, Deirdre. "Review of Gill Perry’s The First Actresses: From Nell Gwynn to Sarah Siddons." Theatre Survey 55.1 (January 2014): 126-128.

Syler, Claire."Performance of Hecuba." Presented at Class Acts: Exploring the Role of Classics In Modern Performance, University of Pittsburgh Interdisciplinary Conference, Pittsburgh PA, March 23 2014.

Syler, Claire. “Critical Reflections: The Art of Will Power to Youth.” Presented at the University of Pittsburgh Grad Expo, Pittsburgh PA, March 27 2014.

Villada, Diego. "'Capoeira: Black Bodies, Movement, and their Relationship to Brazilian-ness". Presented at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, Cleveland OH, March 6 2013.

Wright, David. “Thrival PNC Pitch Competition.” Radio. TechVibe Radio, September 26, 2014.

Wright, David. “Student Launches New Interactive Technology at the University of Pittsburgh Homecoming Laser and Fireworks Show.” KDKA-TV, October 24, 2014.

2013

Appler, Vivian. "After Andromeda: Object and Environment in Science Play." Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Orlando FL, August 2013.

Appler Vivian. "Brecht's Galileo Affair(s): Discourses in Theory and Practice." Presented at Performance Studies International, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, June 2013.

Appler, Vivian. "Brecht Becomes Galileo: Dialogue(s) as Memoir." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore MD, April 2013.

Appler, Vivian. '(Re)Membering-Marsyas: Performance Interventions/Persian Wars' at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, St. Louis MO, May 2013.

Appler, Vivian. 'Funambules: Counter-Imagination in Les Enfants du Paradis." Presented at "Remembering, Imagining, Forgetting: Places of Imagination; Fordham University, New York NY, 2013.

Bisaha, David. "Visualizing Postmemory on Documentary Stages." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore MD, April 2013.

Croot, Cynthia    “Investigating Venus” with Laura Anderson Barbata, Bridgit Antoinette Evans, and Lisa S. Parker, presented in concert with theatrical production of Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks, University of Pittsburgh, PA

Favorini, Attilio. Farewell Address, University of Pittsburgh, April 2013.

Favorini, Attilio. "Collective Creation in Documentary Theatre." A History of Collective Creation. Ed. Kathryn Syssoyeva. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

George, Kathy. "Servers," in Lucky Charms: 12 Crime Tales. Edited by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Pittsburgh PA: Pittsburgh Sisters in Crime, 2013.

Good, Kristi. "Employing Cognitive Techniques in Educational Theatre." Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Orlando FL, August 2 2013.

Good, Kristi. "'Flames Everywhere Unexpected'": Misunderstanding Barry's Hinterland . Presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, Chicago IL, April 13 2013.

Granshaw, Michelle. "Creating Global Community: Virtual Witnessing, Moving Panoramas, and the Irish Diaspora in the Nineteenth Century." Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Dallas TX, November 2013.

Harkulich, Christiana Molldrem. "Playing Men, Becoming Women: The Wellesley College Shakespeare Society." Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Orlando, FL, August 2013.

Harkulich, Christiana Molldrem. "I Say Left So You Don't Look Right: Guiding Gaze in the Sensually Subversive City". Presented at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate Expo, March 2013. Presentation Award Winner.

Harkulich, Christiana Molldrem. "Destabilizing the Mythic Pocohontas; Bougham's Burlesque in its Cultural Moment." Presented at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, St. Louis MO, March 2013, and ATDS Works-In-Progress Workshop, University of Pittsburgh, March 2013.

Harkulich Molldrem, Christiana. “Eufrasia, Tronera y El Muerto” for Team Translation on the Teatro Breve working group. American Society for Theatre Research, Dallas, TX. November 2013. (Working Group, translation). 

Hoskins, Vicki. “Marketing Musicals: Commercializing the Avant-Garde in Spring Awakening.” Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Orlando FL, August 2013.

Hoskins, Vicki. “Not Smashing Stereotypes: Female Representation and the Male Gaze in Smash.” Presented at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Boston MA, March 2013.

Hoskins, Vicki. "'I Enjoy Being a Girl': The Asian Female in David Henry Hwang’s Flower Drum Song.” Presented at the Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium, Philadelphia PA, February 2013.

Nereson, Ariel. "Queens 'Campin' Onstage: Performing Queerness in Mae West's 'Gay Plays.'" Theatre Journal 64.4 (December 2012): 513-532.

Nereson, Ariel. "Embodied Archives and Revision." Presented at the ATDS Works-In-Progress Session. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA. March 29 2013.

Nereson, Ariel. "Revising a History of Subjection in Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land." Presented at the University of Pittsburgh Grad Expo, Pittsburgh PA, March 21 2013. Awarded "Outstanding Paper."

Nereson, Ariel. "'Achilles loved / Patroclus died': Queer Affect and the Revision of Myth in Bill T.Jones's Achilles Loved Patroclus." Presented at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, Saint Louis MO, March 8 2013

O'Rourke, Deirdre. "John Lacy's 'Sauny' Shakespeare." Presented at the Shakespearean Performance Research Group, American Association for Theatre Research Conference. Dallas TX, November 2013.

O'Rourke, Deirdre. "Performing British History Through Beheading." Presented at the Northeast Conference on British Studies. Storrs CT, October 2013.

O'Rourke, Deirdre. "The Mythology of Stuart Britain: Macbeth on the Restoration Stage." Presented at the Theatre History Symposium, Mid-America Theatre Conference, St. Louis MO, March 2013.

Peterson, Dave. "Tiririca and Stephen Colbert's Comic Bodies in the Politics of a Hemispheric America" Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Orlando FL, August 2013.

Peterson, Dave. "Loss in Finnegan Kruckemeyer's Theatre for Young Audiences." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore MD, April 2013.

Peterson, Dave. "Queerness, Failure, and Clown Training." Paper discussed at the American Theatre and Drama Works in Progress Event at the University of Pittsburgh PA, March 2013.

Peterson, Dave. "Antony Sher and the Image of a Clown." Presented at the Mid-American Theatre Conference. St. Louis MO, March 2013.

Syler, Claire "Personal Narratives: A Course Design for Introduction to Theatre." Theatre Topics 22.2 (2012): 173-181.

Syler, Claire. Review. "Cognition in the Globe: Attention and Memory in Shakespeare's Theatre by Evelyn Tribble." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 27.2 (2013): 199-201.

Syler, Claire “Challenging Theatre Pedagogy through the Learning Sciences.” Presented at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, St. Louis MO, March 2013.

Wood, Peter. "The Living Theatre: Evolution of a Revolutionary Theatre." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore MD, April 2013.

Wood, Peter. "Mythbusting History: The Living Theatre vs. The Sinister Government Conspiracy." Presented at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, St. Louis MO, March 2013.

Wood, Peter. "Back(lash) Into the Woods: Putting Women Back in their Place." Text & Presentation, 2012. The Comparative Drama Conference Series, 9. Ed. Graley Herren. Jefferson NC: McFarland and Company, 2013.

Wright, David. Review. "Naomi Rokotnitz. Trusting Performance: A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Drama." Style 47.1 (2013): 119.

Wright, David. "Consciousness-Altering Acts: Theatre from the Perspective of the Science and Philosophy of Action." Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Orlando FL, August 3 2013.

Wright, David. "Technology, Phenomenology and the New Stagecraft: An Early Model for Fighting Our Own Technological Demons." Presented at the ATDS Pre-Conference at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Orlando FL, July 31 2013.

Wright, David. "That Which Passeth Show: How Contemporary Neuroscience and Philosophy of Action Helps Us Read Hamlet." Presented at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, St. Louis MO, March 9 2013.

Wright, David. "Defending the Technologized Spectator: the Structure and Potentials for Action Afforded Audiences by Performance Forms and Emerging Media." Presented at the Festival of Original Theatre, University of Toronto, Toronto CA, February 3 2013.

2012

Appler, Vivian. "Ana Mendieta's Shadows: Fire Siluetas in Cold War Americas." Presented at the Southern Humanities Conference, Louisville KY, February 2-5 2012.

Appler, Vivian. "Waggis! A Theory of Mind and Mask." Presented at the From Ancient Masks to Artificial Intelligence: Drama, Theatre, and Performance Regional Conference, Pittsburgh PA, March 30-31 2012.

Bisaha, David. "Big Props, Big Problems: Exclusion, Loss, and the Journey in Contemporary International Theatre for Teens." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore MD, March 29-31 2012.

Bisaha, David. "Affordance-Enabled Blends as Tools for Design Criticism." Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Nashville TN. November 2012.

Crane, Robert. "Mask and Soul at the Taganka Theatre." Theatre Journal 64.2 (May 2012): 275-277.

Crane, Robert. "The Moscow Repertoire: Embodying the Past on the Contemporary Stage." Presented at the University of Pittsburgh Summer Language Institute Lecture Series, Pittsburgh PA, July 6 2012.

Crane, Robert. "The Simonov Episode: Russian Plays and the American Stage, 1942-1947." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore MD, March 29-31 2012.

Crane, Robert. "Actors Playing Workers and Workers Playing Actors: The Blue Blouse Movement and the Performance of Class." Presented at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, Chicago IL, March 1-4 2012.

Croot, Cynthia   “Adapting Nightwood for the Stage.” Special guest, co-presented with April Sweeney. Djuna Barnes Conference, University of London, Bloomsbury, UK.

DeSoto, Rachel. "Re-Shaping the Tragic Chorus: Aztec Myth and Performance in Cherrie Moraga's The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea." Presented at the From Ancient Masks to Artificial Intelligence: Drama, Theatre, and Performance Regional Conference, Pittsburgh PA, March 30-31 2012.

Favorini, Attilio. "Not A Question of Black and White: Construal of Factuality in Documentary Theatre." Presented at the American Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Washington DC, August 2012.

George, Kathleen. Simple. New York: Minotaur Books, 2012.

Goldbogen, Tamara. "Creating a Theatre for Young Audiences Study Abroad Program: Reflecting on Challenges and Successes." Presented at the Hawaii University International Conferences on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu HI, 2012.

Good, Kristi. "Marilyn Monroe: Soldier in Greasepaint." Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, Pittsburgh PA, November 3 2012.

Good, Kristi. "'Ask your mama': Collective Memory and Storytelling in McCraney's San Pere." Presented at the American Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Washington DC, August 3 2012.

Good, Kristi. "'Halfway through the journey': Intertextuality and Collective Memory in McCraney's Brother/Sister Plays." Presented at the American Theatre and Drama Society Conference, Seville Spain, May 28 2012.

Good, Kristi. "Dramatic Surrogation and Commemoration in Sebastian Barry's 'Ghost Plays.'" Presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, New Orleans LA, March 16 2012.

Harkulich, Christiana Molldrem. "Undercover: New Approaches to Plays from the Spanish Golden Age through Hidden Histories of Women and Native Americans". Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Nashville TN. November 1-4, 2012.

McConachie, Bruce. Theatre and Mind. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

McConachie, Bruce. "The Future of a Cognitive Approach to Performance Studies." Keynote Address presented at the Theatre Research and Performance Association Conference, Kent University, September 2012.

McConachie, Bruce. "Ethics, Evolution, Ecology, and Performance," in Readings in Performance and Ecology, Wendy Arons and Theresa J. May, Eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012: 91-100.

McConachie, Bruce. Review. Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans, by Robert Schanke" in Choice, 49 (March 2012): 239.

Molldrem, Christiana. "Undercover: New Approaches to Plays from the Spanish Golden Age through Hidden Histories of Women and Native Americans". Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research, Nashville, TN. November 1-4 2012.

Molldrem, Christiana."Dragging Mexico; Astrid Hadad's Performance Across Borders". Presented at the Grad Expo at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, March 22 2012.

Nereson, Ariel."Corporeal Historiography in the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's Lincoln Trilogy." Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research, Nashville TN, November 1-4 2012.

Nereson, Ariel. "'An Impulse to Testify': Blackness and Embodied Memory in the Work of Bill T. Jones." Presented at the American Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Washington DC. August 5 2012.

Nereson, Ariel. "Audiences Divided: Empathy, Spectatorial Response, and Gay Kinship in Mae West's 'Gay Plays.'" Presented at the International Conference of American Drama and Theater, Seville Spain, May 28-30 2012.

Nereson, Ariel. "There is some grace to it, we are professionals": Labor, Performance, and Identity in The Trash Project." Presented at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, Chicago IL, March 1-4 2012.

Nereson, Ariel. "'I'll have to do splits to straighten myself out': Queer Performance Networks and Mae West's 'Gay Plays.'" Presented at the CORD Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance Conference, Ann Arbor MI, February 17-19 2012.

O'Rourke, Deirdre. "'When shall we three meet again?' Macbeth onstage in Restoration Dublin, Edinburgh, and London." Presented at the Shakespearean Performance Research Group, American Society for Theatre Research, Nashville TN, November 2012.

O'Rourke, Deirdre. "Paula Vogel: The Child of Feminism and Queer Theory." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore MD, March 29-31 2012.

Peterson, Dave. "W.F. Wallet: Performing Shakespeare without Shakespeare." Paper discussed at the Shakespeare Working Group at the American Society for Theatre Research Conference. Nashville TN, November 2012.

Peterson, Dave. "Finding an Extremely Shakespearian Performance Mode through Mark Rylance's Clown Prince of Denmark." Presented at the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference. MariettaOhio, October 2012.

Peterson, Dave. "Shakespeare and The Supreme Court: Arbitrating Historical and National Truth." Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Washington DC, August 2-5, 2012.

Peterson, Dave. "Clowning as Performance and Dramaturgy in Two Productions of Godot." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore MD, March 29-31 2012.

Wood, Peter. "Cognitive Dissonance: The Poetics of Mac Wellman." Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association Conference, Pittsburgh PA, November 1-3 2012.

Wood, Peter. "Back(lash) Into the Woods: Putting Women Back In Their Place." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore MD, March 29-31 2012.

Wright, David. "Prospero's Magical Circle: Metatheatrical Explorations in the Alteration of Self-consciousness in Shakespeare's The Tempest." Presented at the University of Pittsburgh Grad Expo, Pittsburgh PA, March 22 2012.

2011

Chaki, Rohini. "The Behzti Affair: The Politics of Place in the Negotiation of Sikh Identity in Britain." Presented at the Reorienting Asia: South Asian Performance Across Frontiers Conference, Pittsburgh PA, May 12-14 2011.

Costello, Tommy. "Local No More: The Returned Emigrant in Irish Theatre." Presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, Madison WI, March 30-April 2 2011.

Crane, Robert. Review. "Elena Siemens. Theatre in Passing: A Moscow Photo-Diary." <Slavic and East European Journal 55.4 (Winter 2011): 671-672.

Crane, Robert. Review. "D.J. Hopkins, Shelly Orr and Kim Solga, eds. Performance and the City." Theatre Survey 52.2 (Fall 2011): 384-386.

Crane, Robert. "From the Worker's Club to the Archive: Documenting the Economies of Early Soviet Popular Theatre." Presented at the Theatre Library Association Plenary Session, American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Montreal QC, November 17-20 2011.

Crane, Robert. "From the Editors: Imagining the Soviet Living Newspaper Movement on the Pages of Blue Blouse." Presented at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Russian and East European Studies, Pittsburgh PA, October 2011.

Crane, Robert. "Moliere in a Blue Blouse: The Satire of Vladimir Mass and NEP Era Soviet Society." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Los Angeles CA, March 24-26 2011.

Crane, Robert. Review. "Ramil' Salakhutdinov's Who Wasn't There." KinoKultura 31 (January 2011).

Crane, Robert. "The Performance Historian as Cold Case Detective: Reopening Nikolai L'vov's Investigation of the Blue Blouse Movement." Performing Arts Resources 28: A Tyranny of Documents: The Performance Historian as Film Noir Detective. Ed. Stephen Johnson. New York: Theatre Library Association, 2011.

Croot, Cynthia  “Reza Abdoh Today” Organizer and Panel Moderator. Iranian Theatre Festival. Brick Theatre, Brooklyn.

George, Kathleen. Pittsburgh Noir, Editor. New York: Akashic Books, 2011.

George, Kathleen. Hideout. New York: Minotaur Books, 2011.

Goldbogen, Tamara. "Re-Imagining A Brand." TYA Today 25.2 (2011).

Goldbogen, Tamara. "Entering an Experiential World: Practical Techniques of Audience Engagement in Theatre for Young Audiences." Presented at the Forum of International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network, Malmo, Sweden, 2011.

Good, Kristi. "Fact, Cruelty, and Memory: Representations of Bloody Sunday." Presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, Madison WI, April 2 2011.

Good, Kristi. "Hybrid Products of Conquest: Origins of a Mexican Performance Identity." Presented at the Middle Atlantic Conference for Latin America Studies, Pittsburgh PA, March 18 2011.

McConachie, Bruce. "Theatre and Film in Evolutionary Perspective," Theatre Symposium 19 (2011): 129-47.

McConachie, Bruce. "An Evolutionary Perspective on Play, Performance, and Ritual," TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies 55:4 (Winter 2011): 33-50.

McConachie, Bruce. "Moving Spectators Toward Progressive Politics by Combining Brechtian Theory with Cognitive Science," in Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice. Ed. by Altruz, Listengarten, and Wood. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011: 148-60.

McConachie, Bruce. "All the World is Not a Stage." Presented at the Performance Studies International Conference, Utrecht Netherlands, June 2011.

McConachie, Bruce. "Practicing Theatre History with Cognitive Studies." Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Chicago IL, August 2011.

McConachie, Bruce. "Blending with Angels," Presented at the Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present, Pittsburg PA, October 2011.

McConachie, Bruce. "Acceptance Speech for ASTR Distinguished Scholar Award." Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research, Montreal QC, November 2011.

Molldrem, Christiana. "Policy and Pocahontas; 'Indian' Plays, Popular Culture and Public Policy from 1808 to 1830. Presented at the Draper Conference, Storrs CT, March 24-26 2011.

Molldrem, Christiana. "Performing Criollo for Empire: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz's The Divine Narcissus." Presented at The Graduate Symposium, Purdue University IN, March 5 2011.

Nereson, Ariel. "Embodying the Undiscussable: Documentary Methodology in Bill T. Jones's Still/Here and the Culture Wars." Studies in Musical Theatre 5.3: 297-304.

Nereson, Ariel. "Laboring Toward the Real: Onstage Labor and Documentary Impulse in Jerome Bel's Veronique Doisneau." Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research, Montreal QC, November 18 2011.

Nereson, Ariel. "Staging 'Poetic Facts': Documenting Experience Through Embodiment in Still/Here." Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Chicago IL, August 13 2011.

O'Rourke, Deirdre. "'Reduce, reuse, recycle:' Adaptation as an Economic Approach to Shakespeare in the Restoration." Presented at the Shakespearean Performance Research Group, American Society for Theatre Research, Montreal CAN, November 17-20 2011.

Peterson, Dave. "Priscilla Horton and King Lear: The Reemergence and Gendering of the Fool." Presented at the Shakespeare Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research Conference. Montreal QC, November 17-20 2011.

Peterson, Dave. "Performing Shakespeare's Clowns: Reevaluating Realism." Presented at the Popular Culture Association of Canada, Niagara Falls, May 12-14th 2011.

Wood, Peter. "Apocalyptic Bodies: Butoh and Zombie Performance." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Los Angeles CA, March 24-26 2011.

2010

Appler, Vivian. "Mercury Madness: Learning about Mercury as a Global Pollutant through Mask." Presented at the 2010 International Mercury Expo. College of William and Mary, 2010.

Bisaha, David. "Conceiving a 'Public' Space: A Spatialized History of the Pittsburgh Public Theatre." Presented at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, Cleveland OH, March 4-7 2010.

Chaki, Rohini. "Revisiting Rama's Birthplace: A Cognitive Inquiry into the Nature of Religious Violence." Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's 24th Annual Conference, Los Angeles CA, August 2010.

Chaki, Rohini. "Dakghar in Europe's Darkest Hour: Tagore, The Post Office and the Orphans of Warsaw." Presented at the Tenth Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Performance, Los Angeles CA, 2010.

Costello, Tommy. "Landscape Displaced: O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms and its Irish Underpinnings." Presented at the American Society for Theatre Research, Seattle WA, November 2010.

Costello, Tommy. "Showing Through Telling: Mark O'Rowe's Howie the Rookie and Dublin's Dark Diegetic Narrative." Presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education: Los Angeles CA, August 2010.

Costello, Tommy. "Sundays at the Abbey: Engaging with Bloody Sunday and the Troubles at the Abbey Theatre." Presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, State College PA, May 2010.

Crane, Robert. "Between Factography and Ethnography: Sergei Tretiakov's Roar, China!." Text and Presentation 2010. Ed. Kiki Gounaridou. Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2011: 41-53.

Crane, Robert. "Tim Harte. Fast Forward." Slavic and East European Journal 54.4 (Winter 2010): 715-717. (Book review)

Crane, Robert. "Imaginative Geographies of Russian and Soviet Empire." Presented at the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Convention, Los Angeles CA, November 2010.

Crane, Robert. "The Ghost of Tarelkin: Sukhovo-Kobylin and Meyerhold's Haunted Stage." Presented at the Mid-Western Slavic Conference, Columbus OH, March 2010.

Crane, Robert. "Between Factography and Ethnography: Sergei Tretiakov's Roar, China!." Presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, Los Angeles CA, March 2010.

Crane, Robert. "Rano Kubaeva's figa.ro." KinoKultura 27 (Jan. 2010). (Film review)

Good, Kristi. "As You Like 'It': A Cognitive Approach to Audience Perception of the Androgynous Elizabethan Boy Actor." Presented at the Association of Theatre in Higher Education, Los Angeles CA, August 15 2010.

Peterson, Dave. "The Memories and Histories of Sondheim's Assassins and Follies." Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Alexandria VA, October 28-30 2010.

Peterson, Dave. "Shakespeare's Globe: Collisions of Past and Present in Contemporary Globe Performance." Presented at the Architecture Working Group at International Federation for Theatre Research, Munich, Germany, July 25-28 2010.

Peterson, Dave. "Reconstructing Performance Authority at Shakespeare's Globe." Presented at The CUNY Graduate Center's 2010 Graduate Student Conference (Re)Making (Re)presentation, New York NY, May 3 2010.

Peterson, Dave. "'Mewling and Puking' or 'Good in Everything': The Power of Language to Represent and Form Reality in As You Like It." Presented at School of Arts and Science Grad Expo, University of Pittsburgh, March 2010.

2009

Croot, Cynthia  “Theatre in the Arab World from a U.S. Point of View.” Fadjr International Theatre Festival, Dramatic Arts Center of Iran, Tehran, Iran.

2005

Croot, Cynthia  “Representation and Perception in War Time – Close Up: Syria.” Co-presented with Nathalie Applewhite, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. International   Institute for Peace Educators, Rhodes, Greece

Croot, Cynthia    “A Letter from Syria.” Harper College International Affairs Symposia Series on Syria, Chicago IL

2004

Croot, Cynthia   “Contemporary U.S. Actor Training Practices.” Higher Institute for Theatrical Studies, Damascus University, Syria.

2002

Croot, Cynthia  “International Theatre Collaboration and the Challenges of Intercultural Dialogue.” Co-presented with Bridgit Antoinette Evans. Columbia University Graduate Theatre Program, New York, NY