PhD Faculty

Stephen Barker, Ph.D., University of Arizona;
Professor and Head of Doctoral Studies: Postmodern Theatre, Beckett, Critical Theory.

Anthony Kubiak, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee;
Professor: American and Modern Drama, Modern Poetry, Critical Theory, Philosophy.

Daphne Lei, Ph.D., Tufts University;
Associate Professor: Asian Theatre, Asian American Theatre, Intercultural Theatre, Gender Theory, Performance Theory.

David McDonald, Ph.D., Stanford University;
Professor Emeritus: Dramatic Theory, Irish Drama, Theatre History, Playwriting.

Ian Munro, Ph.D., Harvard University;
Associate Professor: European Drama and Performance, Early Modern Popular Culture, Theatrical Performance of Wit.

Bryan Reynolds, Ph.D., Harvard University;
Professor: Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama, Critical Theory, Transversal Poetics, Feminist Theory, Performance Theory, Cultural Studies.

Janelle Reinelt, Ph.D., Stanford University;
Professor Emeritus: Political Theory and Performance.

Bill Tomlinson, Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Associate Professor of Informatics and Drama: Autonomous Characters, Computational Social Behavior, Interactive Media, Real-Time Animation.

Robert Weimann, Ph.D., Humboldt University (Berlin);
Professor Emeritus: Shakespeare, Critical Theory, Modern German Theatre.

Frank Wilderson, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley;
Associate Professor: Film theory, Marxism, Black Political Theory, Dramaturgy, and Cultural Studies.


Associated UCI Faculty

David Brodbeck, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania;
Professor: Department of Music, Romanticism, Modernism, Anglophone Popular Music since 1950.

Juan Bruce-Novoa, Ph.D., University of Colorado;
Professor: Chicano Culture, Theatre,and Film.

Robert Cohen, D.F.A., Yale University;
Professor: Acting Theory, Directing, Theatre History, Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Dramatic Literature.

Douglas-Scott Goheen, Ph.D., University of Denver;
Professor Emeritus: Scenic Design.

Susan Klein, Ph.D., Cornell University;
Associate Professor: Japanese Theater and Dance, Medieval Japanese Religions, Feminist Critical Theory.

Lynn Mally, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley;
Associate Professor: Modern Russian and Soviet History.

Juan Villegas, Ph.D., Universidad de Chile;
Research Professor: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Theatre History, Theatre and Visual Communication, Spanish Theater, Latin American Theater.

Robert Folkenflik, Ph.D., Cornell University;
Professor Emeritus: Dept. of English and Comparative Literature, Restoration & Eighteenth-Century Drama, History of Criticism & Theory.


UCSD Faculty

Jim Carmody, Ph.D., Stanford University;
Associate Professor: French Theatre, Critical Theory Editor, Theatre Forum.

Emily Colborn-Roxworty, Ph.D., Northwestern;
Assistant Professor: Asian Diaspora Theatre, Drama, and Performance from the 1940s to the present.

Frantisek Deak, Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University;
Professor & Dean of Arts and Humanities: Theatrical Modernism, Comedy, Critical Theory.

Nadine Graves-George, Ph.D., Northwestern University;
Associate Professor: African American Studies, Feminist Studies, Theatre History, and Dance History.

Jorge Huerta, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara;
Professor: Chicano Theatre, US Latino Theatre.

Marianne McDonald, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine;
Professor: Ancient Greek and Roman Drama and their Modern Versions, Irish Drama, Japanese Drama.

John Rouse, Ph.D., Stanford University;
Associate Professor: Modern and Contemporary European Theatre, Bertolt Brecht, Critical Theory.

Janet Smarr, Ph.D., Princeton University;
Professor: Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, especially in Italy and France, Women’s Studies and Literary Theory.