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Simon Williams

Professor & Chair

Teaching Schedule, Office Hours & Location

MW 230-330 (F09)
TD West, Room 2525
Teaching Schedule: THTR 188TP MW 11-1215, Girv 1119 and THTR 250, MW 4-520, TD-W 2517

Research

Ph.D., University of East Anglia
Simon Williams is Professor and Chair of the Department of Dramatic Art. He has taught at universities on four continents, including the University of Regina, of Alberta, Cornell University and, since 1984, UCSB. He has published widely in the fields of European continental theatre, the history of acting, Shakespearean performance, and operatic history. His major publications include German Actors of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Greenwood, 1985), Shakespeare on the German Stage, 1586-1914 (Cambridge, 1990), Richard Wagner and Festival Theatre (Greenwood, 1994), and Richard Wagner and the Romantic Hero (Cambridge, 2004). He has contributed numerous articles in his fields of specialty in edited volumes and leading periodicals. He is also an active director and reviewer of opera. His current projects include co-editing A History of the German Theatre for Cambridge University Press and studies of Shakespeare in the eighteenth century and European opera in the nineteenth.

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Contact

TD West, Room 2525
UC Santa Barbara-Department of Theater and Dance
Santa Barbara, Ca 93106-7060
Phone: 805-893-5515
Fax: 805-893-7029
Email: williams@theaterdance.ucsb.edu

 

 

 

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