Theatre

    The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) is the focal point of the collaborative research activities of the Graduate Center. It promotes interdisciplinary research, partners with GC Research Centers, Institutes and Interdisciplinary Committees, connects the research activities of CUNY faculty at the Colleges to GC research programs and seminars, and provides a home for outstanding visiting scholars to collaborate with faculty and students. ARC offers support to GC doctoral students pursuing research as well as to postdoctoral students who have completed their initial projects.

Theatre

Introduction

The Ph.D. Program in Theatre offers students a solid grounding in the theory, history, and criticism of theatre studies, while encouraging interdisciplinary thinking. The program takes advantage of the rich resources of New York City, with its professional theatre specialists, institutions, and myriad productions, as well as its library and museum facilities and its archives and private collections. Although the program emphasizes academic studies, attempts are made to form alliances of understanding between scholars and practitioners whenever possible. The Film Studies Certificate Program is closely allied with the program; students may do a portion of their course work in film studies, if they desire.

Program Inception: 1968

Areas of Specialization

History, literature, theory, and criticism of theatre and performance; contemporary performance theory; national and regional theatres (including Eastern and Western Europe, the Americas, and the Arab world); gender, race, ethnicity, and class studies; sociology of culture and cultural studies; theory and practice of translation.

Executive Officer

Professor Jean Graham-Jones
Acting Executive Officer, 2010–11:
Distinguished Professor David Savran
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Email: theatre@gc.cuny.edu