Tracy C. Davis
Barber Professor of Performing Arts
Professor of English & Theatre
Theatre Interpretation Centre 215B
Telephone: (847) 491-3138
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: tcdavis@northwestern.edu
Specialties:
19C British theatre history, gender and theatre, economics and business history of theatre, performance theory, research methodology, museum studies, Cold War studies
Currently:
Board of Directors, Performance Studies International
Teaching and Research posts held at:
Harvard University, University of Glasgow, Bristol University, Queen's University (Kingston), University of Calgary, Queen Mary University London, and Northwestern University (since 1991)
Selected Academic Awards, Honors, and Research Grants:
1990-91 |
Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship, Harvard University |
1994-95 |
American Philosophical Society Research Grant |
1995 |
National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship |
2000 |
George Freedley Memorial Award (Theatre Library Association) representing excellence in writing on live theatre |
2004 |
Clarence Ver Steeg Graduate Faculty Award (Northwestern University) |
2005 |
Distinguished Scholar's Prize (American Society for Theatre Research) |
2007 |
Lane Humanities Institute Teaching Professor |
2007-08 |
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library |
2008-09 |
Stanley J. Kahrl Fellowship in Theatre History, Houghton Library |
2009-10 |
Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Queen Mary University of London |
Publications by Tracy C. Davis
Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (Routledge, 1991)
George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre(Praeger/Greenwood, 1994)
Playwriting and Nineteenth-Century British Women, edited with Ellen Donkin (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Theatricality, edited with Thomas Postlewait (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense (Duke University Press, 2007)
Considering Calamity: Methods for Performance Research, co-edited with Linda Ben-Zvi, Assaph (Tel Aviv: Assaph Books, 2007)
The Performing Century: Nineteenth-Century Theatres History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Forthcoming Books:
The Broadview Anthology of Nineteenth-Century British Performance (Broadview Press, 2011)
Books in Development:
Nineteenth-Century British Performance (Broadview Press)
Series Editor:
Theatre and Performance Theory, General Editor, Cambridge University Press.
