TDPS Faculty and students at Comparative Drama Conference 2016
March 14, 2016
A number of faculty and graduate students will represent UMD's School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at this year's Comparative Drama Conference (CDC) in Baltimore on March 31 - April 2, 2016.
A number of faculty and graduate students will represent UMD's School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at this year's Comparative Drama Conference (CDC) in Baltimore on March 31 - April 2, 2016. The keynote event will be a conversation with playwright/screenwriter Tony Kushner.
TDPS scholarship will be represented at the following panel discussions. If you're attending the conference, be sure to catch their presentations!
Thursday, March 31
2:30 – 3:45 p.m Use a Little Body Language: Reading the Embodied Text on Stage
1. Proudfoot Ginder, Brittany. (University of Maryland, College Park)
“B*tches in Britches: Transgressive Representations of Gender Fluidity On and Off the Eighteenth-Century Stage.”
2. Stollenwerk, Joe. (Indiana University)
“’I’ve Got It All’: On the Twentieth Century as Feminist Camp.”
3. Banalopoulou, Christina. (University of Maryland, College Park)
“Tragic Bodies and the Body-Politic: Embodying the Political in Aeschylus’ Oresteia Trilogy and Heinrich Von Kleist’s The Fall of the Amazons.”
4:00 – 5:15 p.m New Critical Perspectives in Asian American Drama: Spectatorship, Globalization, and Racial Politics
1. Kim, Ju Yon. (Harvard University)
“How the Audience Moves: Spectatorship, Smell, and Social Change in M. Butterfly.”
2. Bacalzo, Dan. (Florida Gulf Coast University)
“Extreme Actions: Dissent and Mutability in The World of Extreme Happiness.”
3. Lee, Esther Kim. (University of Maryland)
“Lloyd Suh’s Jesus in India and the Politics of Representing the Global Youth.”
Friday, April 1
9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Identity, Gender, and Trauma: Black Subjectivity in Contemporary American Drama
1. Long, Khalid Y. (University of Maryland, College Park)
“Staging Ground Zero: Glenda Dickerson’s Kitchen Prayer Series.”
2. Ridley, Leticia. (University of Maryland, College Park)
“Searching for Saartjie: Reconstructing Black Womanhood in Suzan Lori Parks’ Venus.”
For more about the Comparative Drama Conference, visit: http://comparativedramaconference.stevenson.edu/