Dr. Susan Kattwinkel

Dr. Susan Kattwinkel

Associate Professor                                              Phone: (843) 953-8218
Department of Theatre                                         email: kattwinkels@cofc.edu
College of Charleston                                           https://kattwinkels.people.cofc.edu

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

Educational Employment:

Director of the First-Year Experience, College of Charleston, 2007-2011

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 - Learning Community variations, FYSM - Theatre and Ethical Choice
In the Honors College: Western Civilization 1, Politics and Theatre in the 20th 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.

Acting for Business Professionals and Improvisation - Meadville Council on the Arts. November 1995.

Improvisation and Acting for Business Professionals - Informal Classes, University of Texas-Austin. 1994/1995.

Beginning Acting, Beginning Acting (Children), Improvisation - Florida Studio Theatre, Sarasota, Florida. Summer 1991.

Leadership Conferences and College Workshop Participation:

ICFAD Fellow - I was a nominated fellow at the International Council of Fine Arts Deans conference and attended a leadership pre-conference, 2008, 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.

College and Department Committees and Service:

First-Year Experience Committee - 2007-2011
Honor Board, 2008-2010
Faculty Senate, Theatre Department Representative, 2005-2007
Faculty Senate, elected member-at-large, two terms, 2001-2005
Speaker of the Faculty pro tem, three terms, 2004-2007
General Education Committee, 2004 -2007
First-Year Seminar Committee, 2004 -2007
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, 1999-2008
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
            Moon - Center Stage - 2007
            The Physicists - Center Stage - 2010
Adjudicator for American College Theatre Festival,
The Maids, Agnes Scott College, 2003
Cinderella Waltz, Lander University, 2004.

Grant/Fellowship recipient:

NSF, co-Primary Investigator on virtual reality project entitled "Virtual Vaudeville," funding amount - $900,000.
Research Fellowship, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. One month stipend for research at the library. July 2007.
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)
                        Nominations Committee, 2008-2010
                        Electronic Communications Committee, 1998-2007
                        programmer on ATHEMOO, ATHE's online meeting forum, 1997-1999
                        reader for Theatre Topics, 1998-2000

American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS)
                        Conference Organizer, 2011-2012
                        Board member, 2007-2009
                        Newsletter/Listserv editor, 2001-2007
                        juror of submissions to annual conference, 1998-2000
                        juror of submissions to the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 1999-2000

Theatre Symposium Steering Committee, 2005-present

Publications:

Contributing editor - The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Broadview Press, expected 2011.
Book review - "Mark Cosdon's The Hanlon Brothers: From Daredevil Acrobatics to Spectacle Pantomime, 1833-1931,"Theatre History Studies, Vol 31 (2011).
Book review - "Esther Romeyn's Street Scenes", Theatre Research International, 35:1 (March 2010).
2 entries on vaudeville - Encyclopedia of Broadway and American Culture, Ed. Tom Greenfield (Greenwood Press, 2010).
Performance Review - Spoleto Festival theatre pieces 2008 - Theatre Journal, Volume 61, Number 1, March 2009.
Book chapter - "Spreading American Feminism: The Vagina Monologues and Cultural Identity" in Signatures of the Past: Cultural Memory in Contemporary Anglophone North American Drama, eds. Marc Maufort and Caroline De Wagter (Peter Lang, 2008).
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, 2007).
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

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

Presentations (sample of presentations):

"Film and Vaudeville: Modernization and Defictionalization" - International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) - Munich, Germany, 2010.
"Boxing on the Variety Stage" - III International Conference on American Theatre and Drama: Violence on Stage - Cadiz, Spain, 2009.
"Graphic Revelations: Boxing, Vaudeville and the Popular Press in Gilded Age New York" - Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference, New York, 2009.
"Faculty Training for the First-Year Experience" - National Conference on the First-Year Experience - Orlando, FL, 2009.
"Faculty Training Programs for FYE Programs" - International Conference on the First-Year Experience - Dublin, Ireland, 2008.
"Spreading 'American' Feminism : The Vagina Monologues and Cultural Identity" - Signatures of the Past - Brussels, Belgium, 2007
"Assimilation and War: The presentation of the Civil War in vaudeville" - Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference - Chicago, 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
"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.

References:
Dr. Kay Smith, Associate Vice President for the Academic Experience, College of Charleston
Professor Todd McNerney, Chair of Theatre Department, College of Charleston
Professor Allen Lyndrup, Professor of Theatre and former chair, College of Charleston
Dr. Richard Nunan, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, College of Charleston
Dr. Bill Demastes, Professor of English, Louisiana State University
Dr. Robert Vorlicky, Professor of Theatre, New York University