PhD in Performance Studies

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Bio: Caitlin Marshall (PhD Performance Studies, University of California Berkeley) is a theater and performance historian and practice based researcher. Her manuscript in progress, “Power in the Tongue: Sounding America in Red, Black, and Brown,” is a cultural history of what it meant to sound American in the nation's first independent century. Along with Shellée Haynesworth (Black Broadway on Ushe is a co-producer and lead researcher of the new musical, At the S Street Salon, based on the archived letters of Georgia Douglas Johnson. She has held fellowships at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at UPenn and at the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin. Her article, "Ear Training for History: Listening to Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield's Double-Voiced Aesthetics," received an honorable mention for the 2024 Vera Mowry Roberts Award from the American Drama and Theatre Society, and she was a recipient of the 2023 Cambridge University Press prize and the 2021 Research Fellowship at the American Society for Theatre Research. Her writing is published or forthcoming from Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, Studies in Musical Theatre, Journal of the American Musicological SocietyPerformance MattersPostmodern CultureTwentieth-Century Music, and Sounding Out!