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Emily Roxworthy

 

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Biography

Emily Roxworthy (M.A. Cornell, Ph.D. Northwestern) is a scholar of performance studies, race relations, interculturalism, and Asian American theatre. Her research has been published in TDR, Theatre Journal, Theatre Research International, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and other scholarly journals. Professor Roxworthy’s first book concerns the internment of Japanese Americans and will be published by the University of Hawai‘i Press in 2008, titled The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity in World War II. She teaches a range of doctoral seminars on performance theory and world theatre history, as well as undergraduate courses including Solo Performance and Asian American Theatre. She is affiliate faculty in the Department of Ethnic Studies and a member of the California Cultures in Comparatives Perspectives program at UCSD.

 

 

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Theatre Forum - An international theatre journal since 1992
La Jolla Playhouse - UCSD is home to this Tony Award winning theatre
UCSD Home Page - University of California San Diego's main web site

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