Core Faculty

Margit Edwards, a Doctoral candidate in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center, CUNY, her research interests include 20th & 21st century Africana theatre and performance, theories of coloniality/modernity, and transcultural African dance dramaturgy. She has been a Fellow with the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and Caribbean (IRADAC) and a recipient of the Dean K. Harrison Fellowship.

Jennifer Joan Thompson joins the Theatre Arts program after receiving her PhD in Theatre and Performance from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research examines the relationship between theatre and politics, with a focus on 20th and 21st century Latin American theatre and performance. Her current book project, Dramaturgies of Democracy: Performance, Cultural Policy, and Citizenship in Chile, 1979-Present explores the dynamic between state politics, cultural policy, and theatrical aesthetics during the Chilean transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Dr. Rosemary Malague is the author of An Actress Prepares: Women and “the Method” (Routledge 2012), the first book to conduct a feminist examination of American, Stanislavsky-based actor training traditions. Her research focuses on American theatre, feminist performance, and realist acting techniques, and her work has been published in the Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky, Shakespeare Bulletin, Theatre Annual, European Stages, Digital Theatre Plus, and elsewhere.