On January 16th at 7:30 PM ET, we will hold a free online interactive discussion on Edward Young's The Revenge with Tracy C. Davis, Cornesha Tweede, Lisa Freeman, Amy Huang, Bridget Orr, and Red Bull Theater Executive Director Martin Giannini. Red Bull Theater's Revelation Reading of The Revenge is presented in partnership with the Mellon Foundation sponsored “On Decolonizing Theatre” Seminar at Northwestern University, and the R/18 Collective. Get full details about the Revelation Reading here.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Tracy C. Davis (Barber Professor of Performing Arts, Northwestern University) specializes in the historiography and methodologies of theatre and performance research. She has published a dozen books and over 100 articles in journals dedicated to the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Her most recent books are Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform and The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies. In 2023-24, she is leading the Mellon Sawyer Seminar series “On Decolonizing Theatre,” focusing on path-breaking productions of 18th-century repertoires.
Cornesha Tweede is a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages with a specialization in African Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research agenda explores race, gender and the place of Africa in early modern cultural studies. Her work invites us to embrace the legacy of Blackness on the Iberian Peninsula, and to address the ways in which it has been suppressed within conventional, canonical scholarship, criticism and pedagogy of the early modern period. She is co-editor of Iberia Negra. Textos para otra historia de la diáspora africana (siglos XVI y XVII), which will be published with Routledge in 2024 with Diana Berruezo-Sánchez and Manuel Olmedo Gobante. She is currently at work on her first monograph that examines literary depictions of Black African women in early modern Spain and Portugal.
Lisa A. Freeman is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at University of Illinois Chicago and current President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. She is the author of Character's Theatre: Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage (UPenn, 2002), and Antitheatricality and the Body Public (UPenn, 2017), which was named the Runner-Up for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education Outstanding Book Award, a finalist for the Theatre Library Association George Freedley Award, and an Honorable Mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize. Most recently, she has published essays on George Colman's The Iron Chest and Elizabeth Inchbald's Remarks for the British Theatre. Her current research focuses on race, racialization, and adaptation on the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century stage and on adaptations and responses to canonical plays by contemporary playwrights of color.
Amy Huang is Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Bates College. Her book project, Circuits of Secrets on British and American Stages, focuses on how theatre’s secrecy engages with the power relations and racist imaginaries attached to slavery, settler colonialism, Orientalism, and Chinese exclusion. Her work has appeared in Theatre Survey, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Milestones in Asian American Theatre.
Bridget Orr (Professor English, Vanderbilt University) researches eighteenth-century British theatre and empire and modern writing from Aotearoa New Zealand. She has published two books on the former topic, Empire on the English Stage, 1660 – 1714 (2001) and British Enlightenment Theatre: Dramatizing Difference (2019), both with Cambridge University Press. In addition to work on eighteenth-century British literature and theatre, she has published many essays on Aotearoa writers including Katherine Mansfield, Witi Ihimaera and Robert Sullivan.
On January 16th at 7:30 PM ET, we will hold a free online interactive discussion on Edward Young's The Revenge with Tracy C. Davis, Cornesha Tweede, Lisa Freeman, Amy Huang, Bridget Orr, and Red Bull Theater Executive Director Martin Giannini. Red Bull Theater's Revelation Reading of The Revenge is presented in partnership with the Mellon Foundation sponsored “On Decolonizing Theatre” Seminar at Northwestern University, and the R/18 Collective. Get full details about the Revelation Reading here.
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