Heather S. Nathans

Associate Professor, Associate Chair

301.405.6687
2818 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
hnathans@umd.edu

 

Education/Training: Ph.D. in Theatre, Tufts University, 1999; A.B. in Theatre, Dartmouth College, 1990

Areas of Specialization/Interest: American Theatre and Drama, African American Theatre, Jewish American Theatre, Musical Theatre, 17th and 18th century French Theatre, Theatre Historiography, English Restoration Drama, and Directing

Professional Affiliations: American Society for Theatre Research; Association for Theatre in Higher Education; President of American Theatre and Drama Society; Society of Early Americanists; Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

Representative Productions:

The Country Wife (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company); directing projects at the University of Maryland include The Taming of the Shrew, Fashion, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You, and 'Dentity Crisis

Representative Publications/Research Activities:

Publications: Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson (CUP 2003) and Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1781-1861 (CUP 2009); Shakespearean Educations: Power, Citizenship, and Performance (co-editor and contributing author, forthcoming, Delaware University Press); Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (contributing author, Palgrave 2009); and Theatre Historiography: Critical Querstions (contributing author, University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2010). Guest Editor: The Journal of American Drama and Theatre and the New England Theatre Journal (August Wilson issue). Articles: Theatre History Studies, New England Theatre Journal, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Early American Studies, and Pennsylvania History Journal.

Honors and Awards: Fellowships from the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Society for Theatre Research, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, the Gilder Lehrman Foundation, and the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora; Non-resident Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University from 2001-2004; Grants from the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland and the Pepsi Foundation.