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[[Megan Lewis]] is a South African-American theatre historian and performance scholar. | [[Megan Lewis]] is a South African-American theatre historian and performance scholar. | ||
| + | == Biography == | ||
| + | She has a BA from Kenyon College, an MA from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the University of Minnesota. | ||
| − | + | == Career == | |
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| − | Her interests are the staging of national identity, gender, and race in a variety of performance media. | + | Her interests are African theatre and film, the politics of performance, non-Western performance traditions, the staging of national identity, gender, and race in a variety of performance media (e.g. the performance of gender (masculinity) and race (whiteness) in South Africa.) |
| − | + | Lewis taught theatre, media, and film courses at the University of Minnesota (2006-2011) before joining the faculty at UMass Amherst in 2011 - where she is currently the Graduate Program Director for the Department of Theater at UMass. | |
| − | + | She balances her scholarly life with a professional career as a documentary filmmaker and editor, and voiceover talent. | |
| − | + | ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance== | |
| + | Lewis has published extensively on South African performance in ''Theatre Journal'', ''Performing Arts Journal'', ''Text & Performance'', ''Theatre Topics'', and ''The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism''. | ||
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| + | Her books on South African theatre and performance include ''Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space'' - co-editor, with [[Anton Krueger]] (Intellect Ltd., 2016) and ''Performing Whitely in the Postcolony: Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life'' ( University of Iowa Press, 2016). | ||
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| + | Every summer, she leads students on an intensive study abroad program, called ''Arts & Culture in South Africa'', focused around the [[National Arts Festival]] in Grahamstown. | ||
Revision as of 08:53, 24 April 2017
Megan Lewis is a South African-American theatre historian and performance scholar.
Contents
Biography
She has a BA from Kenyon College, an MA from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the University of Minnesota.
Career
Her interests are African theatre and film, the politics of performance, non-Western performance traditions, the staging of national identity, gender, and race in a variety of performance media (e.g. the performance of gender (masculinity) and race (whiteness) in South Africa.)
Lewis taught theatre, media, and film courses at the University of Minnesota (2006-2011) before joining the faculty at UMass Amherst in 2011 - where she is currently the Graduate Program Director for the Department of Theater at UMass.
She balances her scholarly life with a professional career as a documentary filmmaker and editor, and voiceover talent.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Lewis has published extensively on South African performance in Theatre Journal, Performing Arts Journal, Text & Performance, Theatre Topics, and The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.
Her books on South African theatre and performance include Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space - co-editor, with Anton Krueger (Intellect Ltd., 2016) and Performing Whitely in the Postcolony: Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life ( University of Iowa Press, 2016).
Every summer, she leads students on an intensive study abroad program, called Arts & Culture in South Africa, focused around the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
