Accomplishments: Department of Theatre
A book review by Professor Germán Garrido (City University of New York) in Theatre Research International praises Stefano Boselli's (Theatre) recent monograph, Actor-Network Dramaturgies: The Argentines of Paris: “As its title anticipates, Boselli’s book leverages ANT (actor-network theory) to navigate the rhizomatic network of Argentine theatre…
Stefano Boselli (Theatre) presented his paper, “Nomadic Comics from Page to Performance: Copi’s Irreverent Characters as Staged by Alfredo Arias and Les Lucioles,” at the 45th Annual Mid-America Theatre Conference, held in Atlanta, GA, from March 6 to 8, 2025. Boselli’s paper examined the intersection of comics and theatre in the work of Argentine…
On Nov. 15, Stefano Boselli (Theatre) presented his paper, “Large Production, Big History: The Actor-Network Dramaturgy of Good Bye Mister Freud through Space and Time,” during the “Big Histories: Experimental Methods for Tracking Change Across Bodies, Generations, and Geographies in Performance” Working Session at the American Society for Theatre…
From Nov. 7 to 10, Stefano Boselli (Theatre) participated in the 121st Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference, “Translation in Action,” held in Palm Springs, CA. As part of his contributions, Boselli organized the Drama and Society I and II standing sessions and presented his paper, “Shipwrecked in Paradise: Expanding…
Assistant professor Christina Watanabe (Theatre) was featured as a guest on the popular podcast Light Talk, co-hosted by 51ԹϺ professor emeritus Brackley Frayer. In the podcast, she discusses her academic journey, challenges she has faced in the profession, and gratitude for her collaborators.
Adam Paul (Film), assistant professor, presented on a panel at the 4th Annual Humanities Podcast Network Symposium titled, "Podcasting as Artistry and Craft." Paul discussed his work on 51ԹϺ projects in the Departments of Film and Theatre, including the award-winning fiction podcast "POD115" and the recent film review podcast "The Film Dept.," co-…
Christina Watanabe (Theatre) designed the lighting for the DC-area premiere of Disney's Frozen at Olney Theatre Center in a new production that prominently features performers of color. Olney was selected by Disney as one of only a few regional theatres to access rights to this show. This production uses new and emerging automation…
Stefano Boselli (Theatre) published the article “Deliberate Starvation: Hunger Artists in Kafka, Różewicz, and Sinking Ship” in Global Performance Studies 6, nos 1–2 (2023): Hunger. The article explowes how a negative action, the decision to abstain from food, can be enacted on stage. Examining hunger as a conscious choice to avoid food for…
On June 22, Stefano Boselli (Theatre) presented the paper “Invisible Assemblages Made Visible: Hostile Actors and Dis-Connected Shows in Paris, 1970-1993" at the PSi Performance Studies international Conference #29 “Assemble! in London, UK. French theorists Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari describe the assemblage as follows: “a…
Stefano Boselli (Theatre) published the chapter on controversial French author Jean Genet in The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature, “the first authoritative and definitive edited collection on absurdist literature. As a field-defining volume, the editor [Michael Bennett] and the contributors are world leaders in this ever-exciting genre…
Stefano Boselli (Theatre) published the chapter “Latin America” in the collection Pirandello in Context, edited by Patricia Gaborik for Cambridge University Press. Boselli speaks about the introduction of Pirandello’s plays to Latin America, which started after the controversial Italian success of Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), then…
Stefano Boselli (Theatre) published the chapter, “Echoes of Theatre Past: Blasco Ibañez's El comediante Fonseca and Cozarinsky’s El rufián moldavo,” in the The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction edited by Graham Wolfe. Boselli’s chapter examines El comediante Fonseca (Fonseca, the Actor, 1924) by Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibañez (1867–1928…