Tracy C. Davis

Barber Professor of Performing Arts
Professor of English & Theatre

Theatre Interpretation Building 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:
President, American Society for Theatre Research

Teaching and Research posts held at:
Harvard University, University of Glasgow, Bristol University, Queen's University (Kingston), University of Calgary, 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)

Published Books:
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).

Forthcoming Books:
The Performing Century: Nineteenth-Century Theatres History (in press, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Books in Development:
Nineteenth-Century British Performance (Broadview Press).

Series Editor:
"Theatre and Performance Theory", General Editor, Cambridge University Press.