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Christina S. McMahon Assistant Professor Teaching Schedule, Office Hours & Location
M 1:30-3 and W 5-6 (W10) Research Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Program in Theatre and Drama. Northwestern University.Christina McMahon’s current research draws on theories of global circulation to analyze transformative performances of colonial history, race, gender, and sexuality within theatre festival productions, specifically those staged for the Mindelact International Theatre Festival in Cape Verde, West Africa. Broadly, her research interests encompass Lusophone postcolonialism, performance-based ethnography, globalism and national identity formation in Africa, and theatrical strategies employed during wars of liberation on the African continent in the twentieth century. She is the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant, a Mellon travel grant, the American Society for Theatre Research Dissertation Award (2005), and the IFTR New Scholar’s Prize (2007). Selected publications: “From Adaptation to Transformation: Shakespeare ‘Creolized’ on Cape Verde’s Festival Stage,” Theatre Survey. Theatre Survey 50.1 (May 2009): 35-66. (special issue on African and Afro-Caribbean Theatre) “Mimesis and the Historical Imagination: (Re) Staging History in Cape Verde, West Africa,” Theatre Research International 33.1 (2008): 20-39. “Embodying Diaspora: Ambivalence and Utopia in Contemporary Cape Verdean Theatre.” Theatre History Studies 27 (2007): 110-38. “Globalizing Allegory: Augusto Boal’s A Lua Pequena e a Caminhada Perigosa in Brazil and Cape Verde,” Latin American Theatre Review 39:1 (2005): 71-93. Download CV (PDF) Contact
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