Current PhD Students

Paul Backer (pbacker@usc.edu): Classical and early modern theatre, performance theory, comparative theatre, philosophy and religion. Dissertation title: “Shakespeare, Alchemy and Dao: The Inner Alchemical Theatre"

Greg Ungar (gungar@uci.edu): Ancient Greek theatre, early modern English theatre, North American poetic realism. Dissertation Title: “Ancient, Vicious, Luscious: Secrecy and Confession in Western Drama”

Janna Segal (segalj@uci.edu): Early modern English theatre, modern European theatre, contemporary political theatre. Dissertation Title: “Shakespearean-Becomings: Transversal Explorations of Amorous Desire from Shakespeare to Beyond Lorca’s ‘Impossible’ Theatre”

Cipriana Petre (gpetre@uci.edu): performance/theatre theory, tragedy (esp. Ancient Greek and Shakespeare), European theatre, Central & Eastern European theatre in transition, rhetoric. Dissertation Title: “Twice-Mapping Romania: Towards a Performative Gridding of Romanian Communism, 1945-89, and a Political Cartography of Post-1989 Romanian Theatre”

Allison Crilly (acrilly@uci.edu)

Rebecca Johannsen (rjohanns@uci.edu): Early modern drama, feminist theory, female suicide and death on stage

Karen O'Brien (obrienk@uci.edu): Modern and contemporary Irish drama, Irish Gothic, hauntology, critical theory

Taehyung Kim (taehyunk@uci.edu): Comparative drama, Asian American theatre, politics and performance

Daniel Moorhead (moorhead@uci.edu): Nietzsche, philosophy of art, theatricality and consciousness

Adam Bryx (abryx@uci.edu): Deleuze and Guattari, semiotics and simulation, early modern English theatre

Donovan Sherman (dsherman@uci.edu): Early modern and 18th-century European
performance culture, animality, childhood studies, rhetoric

Chong Wang (cwang7@uci.edu): Traditional and contemporary Japanese and Chinese theatre, avant-garde theatre

Glenn D. Kessler (gkessler@uci.edu): Queer theory, affective theory, dramaturgy

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