Faculty

• Arnold Aronson, Professor, Ph.D., NYU, 1977
  Interests include: History and theory of theatre; scenography
  Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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• Helene P. Foley, (Barnard) Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1975
  Interests: Archaic Greek poetry; Greek drama; women in Antiquity; Greek religion and mythology
  Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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• Lynn Garafola, Professor, Ph.D., City University of New York, 1985
  Interests: Dance History, Criticism and Research
  Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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• Lydia Goehr, Professor, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1987
  Interests: Philosophy of music; aesthetics; critical theory; and 19th- and 20th-century philosophy
  Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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• Jean E. Howard, Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1975
  Interests: Renaissance drama and performance; feminist theory
  Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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• Andreas Huyssen, Professor, Ph.D., Zurich, 1969
  Interests: German literature and culture of the 18th-20th centuries, comparative modernisms, postmodernism, media studies, critical theory
  Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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• Martin Meisel, Brander Matthews Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Princeton, 1960
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• Martin Puchner, Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1998
  Interests: 19th-century and 20th-century drama and performance; modernism; continental and language philosophy
  Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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• Austin E. Quigley, Professor, Ph.D., California (Santa Cruz), 1971
  Interests: Modern drama, American drama; drama and dramatic theory; 19th- and 20th-century comparative drama and performance; performance theory
  Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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• James S. Shapiro, Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1982
  Interests: Shakespeare; medieval and early modern drama; Jewish studies; British poetry
  Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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• Alisa Solomon, Associate Professor, DFA, Yale, 1995
  Interests: Modern and contemporary drama and performance, gender and queer studies, Jewish studies, immigrant cultures, political theater
  Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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• William Worthen, Professor, Ph.D. Princeton, 1981
  Interests: Modern drama, performance theory, Shakespeare
  Approved Dissertation Sponsor

Other Faculty at Columbia / Barnard:

The faculty who make up the Subcommittee for the PhD in Theatre are only a few of the distinguished professors at Columbia and Barnard who offer valuable courses related to the study of Theatre.

Students

• Minou Arjomand
• Elfriede (Michi) Barall
• Julie Bleha
• Joseph Cermatori
• Anne Holt
• Ewa Kara
• Tom Keever
• Daniel Larlham
• Darragh Martin
• Sarah Ina Myers
• Nathaniel G. Nesmith
• Mirabelle Ordinaire
• Michelle Shafer
• Jessica Simon
• Alexis Gaynor Soloski
• Shilarna Stokes
• Timothy Youker