Dr. Susan Kattwinkel

Associate Professor Phone: (843) 953-8218

Department of Theatre email: kattwinkels@cofc.edu

College of Charleston web: http://www.cofc.edu/~kattwins/SKhome.htm

Education:

PhD - University of Texas at Austin - Theatre History and Criticism - 1997

MA - Emerson College - Performing Arts, Concentration in Directing -1990

BA - College of William and Mary - Theatre and Speech - 1988

Academic Teaching Experience:

• Associate Professor of Theatre at the College of Charleston, 2004 – present

• Assistant Professor of Theatre at the College of Charleston, 1998 - 2004

Courses taught at the College: Theatre History and Literature 1 and 2, Feminist Theatre, American Theatre History, Script Analysis, Spoleto, Dramaturgy, Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Acting 1, Stage Management, Introduction to Theatre, Introduction to Theatre - First-Year Seminar

In the Honors College: Western Civilization 1, Politics and Theatre in the 20^th Century, Performance Studies

I teach many of these courses using computer technology as a significant teaching and learning aid. Online course materials for both present and past courses can be found at my web site

• Adjunct Professor at Allegheny College, 1997

Courses taught: Acting 1, Oral Interpretation, Stage Management and Improvisation Master Classes

• Teaching Assistant to Dr. John Brokaw at UT-Austin. 1993/1994. Theatre History for Theatre Majors. Job involved grading papers, tutoring students, and lecturing several times a semester.

• Teaching Assistant to Dr. Miles Coiner at Emerson College. 1988/1989. Theatre History for Performing Arts Majors. Job involved creating, administering and grading quizzes and exams, creating study guides, and personal tutoring.

Leadership Conferences and College Workshop Participation:

• ICFAD (International Council of Fine Arts Deans) Rising Leadership Fellow, Conference, October 2008, Portland, OR. Nominated by Dean Valerie Morris.

• South Carolina Women in Higher Education Leadership Development Forum, April, 2005, nominated by Dean Valerie Morris and Provost Elise Jorgens.

• Retention Action Planning Workshop with Noel-Levitz consultant Charles Schroeder, January, 2005, attendance requested by Robert Mignone, Faculty Speaker

• Leadership Development Workshop, sponsored by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, August, 2001, nominated by Dean Valerie Morris

• NINCH - I was one of 100 humanities scholars from across the country to be invited to the Building Blocks Project of NINCH (National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage) in Washington, D.C., in 2000, designed to set up networks of scholars discussing and planning ways of using new technologies to enhance pedagogy and research in the humanities.

• Teacher-Scholar Presentation - a new initiative at the College of Charleston, designed to highlight the working methods of exemplary teacher-scholars; I was asked to speak on the first panel in 2000.

• Center for Effective Teaching and Learning, College of Charleston - I was asked to present on issues regarding computer pedagogy, 2000.

Consulting

• Department Evaluator for Internal Review – SUNY Geneseo – February 8-9, 2007. With Robert Vorlicky of NYU I was invited to the Geneseo campus for two days of program review to accompany a self-assessment. We responded to curriculum, production program, and general administration of the program. Response included a 10 page report.

College and Department Committees and Service:

• Faculty Advisory Committee to the President, 2005-present

• Faculty Senate, Theatre Department Representative, 2005-present

• Faculty Senate, elected member-at-large, two terms, 2001-2005

• Speaker of the Faculty pro tem, three terms, 2004-2007

• General Education Committee, 2004 –present

• First-Year Seminar Committee, 2004 –present

• Honors Program Committee, 2005-2006

• Academic Planning Committee - 2001-2004
• Secretary - 2003-2004

• Faculty Committee on Institutional Effectiveness (Assessment), 1998-2001
• Majors Subcommittee Chair, 1999-2000
• Committee Chair, 2000-2001

• Convocation Committee - 2001-2002

• Performance Committee, Theatre Department, 1999 – 2005

• College Catalog Committee, 1999-2000

• name reader at College of Charleston Fall and Spring graduations, 1998-present

• maintenance of Theatre Department web pages, 1999-present

• introduced and moderate audience talk backs following main stage productions

• director - The Vagina Monologues - VDAY, College of Charleston, February 2002, 2006

• Honors student advisor, 1999-present

• NAST evaluation preparation for Theatre department, 2001-2002, 2004-2005

• Faculty Advisor:
• Honors Thesis – Rachel Isley, 2002
• Honors Thesis – Lindy Flowers, 2003
• Top Girls – Center Stage – 2006

• Adjudicator for American College Theatre Festival,
• The Maids, Agnes Scott College, 2002
• Cinderella Waltz, Lander University, 2003.

• I have also served, upon request, as an outside reader for several scholarly books and textbooks, and I have served as an outside reader for tenure candidates at other institutions.

Grant recipient:

• NSF, co-Primary Investigator on virtual reality project entitled "Virtual Vaudeville", funding amount - $900,000.

• Faculty Research and Development Grant, Summer 2004. I received money to travel to Italy to visit and do research on Renaissance and Neoclassical era theatres for use in my Theatre History classes.

• Center for Effective Teaching and Learning Teaching Grant for Faculty Development, College of Charleston, Summer 1999. Grant was to assist in development of my web pages, which I use extensively for classroom instruction. They can be seen at the above address.

• Faculty Research and Development Committee, College of Charleston, Summer 2000. Grant assisted in living expenses in New York while I conducted research at the NYPL for two ongoing projects.

Professional Organization Appointments and Offices:

• Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
• Electronic Communications Committee, 1998-present
• programmer on ATHEMOO, ATHE's online meeting forum, 1997-1999
• reader for Theatre Topics, 1998-2000

• American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS)
• Board member, 2005 – present
• Debut panel committee member, 2008
• Debut panel chair, 2007
• Newsletter/Listserv editor, 2001-2005
• juror of submissions to annual conference, 1998-2000
• juror of submissions to the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 1999-2000

• Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC)
• Theatre Symposium Steering Committee, 2005-present
• ATHE liaison, 2004-2005
• Website Committee, 2000-2004

Publications:

• Book chapter - "Spreading 'American' Feminism: The Vagina Monologues and Cultural Identity," in Signatures of the Past: Cultural Memory in Contemporary Anglophone North American Drama, ed. Marc Maufort and Caroline DeWagter, forthcoming 2008.

• Editorial Reader – Reading Brokeback Mountain: Essays on the Story and the Film, ed. Jim Stacy, McFarland, 2007. I read submitted essays and provided the editor with detailed responses according to a provided rubric to assist in essay selection.

• Book chapter - "Irish and American: Forging Identity through the 19th Century Vaudeville Afterpiece," in Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance, ed., William W. Demastes, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006.

• Editor - Theatre Symposium: A Publication of the Southeastern Theatre Conference, 2003-2005, issues 12 and 13

• Associate Editor, 2001-2003
• Editorial Board, 2005-present
• Book, Editor and Contributor - Audience Participation: Crossing Time and Genre - Greenwood Press, 2002
• Book, Editor and Essayist – Tony Pastor Presents: Afterpieces from the Vaudeville Stage - Greenwood Press, 1998
• Article - "A Relationship in Flux: Variety Theatre and Government in the 20th Century" - Theatre Symposium - Vol. 9, 2001
• Article - "Absence as a Site for Debate: Modern Feminism and Victorianism in the Plays of Susan Glaspell" - New England Theatre Journal - Vol. 7, 1996
• Article - "Tony Pastor's Vaudeville: Serving the New York Community" - Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin - Vol. 25, no. 3, 1995
• Managing Editor - Theatre Insight - Vol.5, no.1, Dec. 1993

Presentations (sample of presentations):

"Discussion and Concession: Plays and Political Protest" – ATHE conference – Denver, July, 2008.

"Playing the Outside off the Inside: Esther’s Follies’ Window on the World" – Theatre Symposium, Chapel Hill, April, 2008.

"Spreading 'American' Feminism: The Vagina Monologues and Cultural Identity" - Signatures of the Past: Cultural Memory in Contemporary Anglophone North American Drama Conference – Brussels, Belgium – April, 2007.

"Assimilation and War: The presentation of the Civil War in vaudeville" – Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference – Chicago, July, 2006

"Audience-Interactive Theatre Events: Playful Community-Building and the Challenge to Critical Theory" – invited panel respondent, ATHE conference - Chicago, 2006

"The Cleaning Up of the Variety Stage: 'Immoral' Variety to ‘Respectable’ Vaudeville in New York City" – SETC Theatre Symposium – Atlanta, 2006.

Theatre History Pedagogy Research Group – American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) conference – Toronto, 2005

"Transforming Theatrical Style and Audiences: Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues in VDAY Performances" - panel chair and presenter, ATHE conference - New York 2003

"Collaborative Feminist Theatre History: The Web in Practice and Theory" - panel chair and presenter, ATHE conference - Chicago, IL 2001. Presentation available online at my web site

"Gender and Audience: the Appeal to Women in Nineteenth-Century Vaudeville" - SETC Theatre Symposium - Lynchburg, VA, 2001

"Computer Pedagogy for Beginners." - panel chair and presenter, ATHE conference - Washington, D.C., 2000

"A Relationship in Flux: Variety Theatre and Government in the 20th Century" - SETC Theatre Symposium - Knoxville, 2000. I was invited to present this paper again at the 2001 SETC convention in Jacksonville

"Teaching Techniques for Undergraduate Theatre History Classes" - chair and presenter, Southeastern Theatre Conference - Norfolk, 2000

"The Decline of the Freak Act in Vaudeville" - ATHE Conference - Toronto, 1999

"Seeing the Political Through the Popular: Post Civil War Politics in the Vaudeville Afterpiece" – SETC Theatre Symposium - Greenville, SC, 1999

"Inherent in the Form: Computers, Theatre, and the Negotiation of the Postmodern Self" - ATHE Conference - San Antonio, 1998

"Afterpieces from the Vaudeville Theatre of Tony Pastor: reflecting perceived immigrant experience" - Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) - Birmingham, AL, 1998

"Audience Participation in Contemporary Variety: Decreasing Distance", panel chair and presenter - ATHE Conference - Chicago, 1997

"Chaos Theory: Charting the Possibilities for Performance" - Spotlight panel chair and presenter - ATHE Conference - San Francisco, 1995

"The Dramaturg Conceived of as Voice" – SETC Theatre Symposium - Atlanta, 1994

Academic Production Experience:

Directing:

The Vagina Monologues – Eve Ensler. Part of national VDAY celebration. 2006

Metamorphoses - Mary Zimmerman, 2005

Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett, 2004

The Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler. Part of national VDAY celebration. 2002

Vinegar Tom - Caryl Churchill, 2000

Machinal - Sophie Treadwell. This production was voted the "Best non-Spoleto Play of 1999" by readers of the Charleston City Paper. 1999

Dramaturgy:

Medea – Director – Evan Parry. 2006

Trojan Women - Director - Evan Parry. 2002

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches - Director - Joy Vandervort-Cobb. 1999

Stage Management:

On the Verge - Eric Overmyer. Director - Todd McNerney. 2001

The Guest Director - Franklin Ashley. Director - Gus Smythe, 1998 (Production Stage Manager) Produced by Lowcountry Heritage Society

The preceding productions took place since my appointment at the College of Charleston. I can provide a more extensive production resume that includes work in the Charleston community upon request.