Dr. Granshaw will serve as a respondent for the Humanities Center Colloquium featuring Esther Kim Lee and her award-winning book Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era.
Dr. Granshaw will discuss her paper, “The Fight for Desegregation: Race, Freedom, and American Theatre After Emancipation,” as part of the University of Pittsburgh’s Humanities Center Colloquium series.
Dr. Esther Kim Lee of Duke University, Dr. Kate Preston Keeney of the College of Charleston, and Dr. Michelle Granshaw of University of Pittsburgh will join Dr. Franklin J. Hildy and speakers from the College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland, in a roundtable discussion on the future of humanities Ph.D. programs. The roundtable is part of “Out of the Margins,” the latest Ph.D. symposium offered by TDPS, which annually brings together leading scholars, affiliated faculty, and advanced graduate students to engage significant trends in performance scholarship.
Please join us in the Humanities Center for a book duet featuring Michelle Granshaw (Theatre Arts) and her Irish on the Move: Performing Mobility in American Variety Theatre together with James Coleman (French and Italian Studies) and his A Sudden Frenzy: Improvisation, Orality, and Power in Early Modern Italy. This is part of a new Humanities Center series that brings books recently published by Pitt faculty into conversation. Granshaw and Coleman will select excerpts from each other's books for discussion, and they will be available at the Humanities Center's shared folder. This event will be hybrid, so you can attend it either in person in 602 CL or via Zoom as you prefer.
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Dr. Granshaw will present a talk, “Dramaturgies in Practice: Irish-American Theatre and Performances of Mobility," at the University of Lille. Drawn from her book, Irish on the Move: Performing Mobility in American Variety Theatre, she will discuss the hibernicon, an Irish-American moving panorama and variety show, and how its performances of imagined travel served as a nationalist tactic for rewriting Irish history.
On November 16, 2018, Dr. Granshaw will workshop her paper “Embodied Learning in the Theatre History Classroom” as part of the “Pedagogy of Extraordinary Bodies” working group at the American Society for Theatre Research annual conference.
