Brander Matthews
First Professor of Dramatic Literature
E.E. Simmons, Portrait of Brander Matthews, CA.1890, oil on canvas, Columbia University, Gift of Brander Matthews.
Faculty
- Arnold Aronson, Professor, Ph.D., NYU, 1977
Interests include: History and theory of theatre; scenography
Approved Dissertation Sponsor - Katherine Biers, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 2001
Interests: 19th- and 20th-century American and European drama; media studies - Helene P. Foley, Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1975
Interests: Archaic Greek poetry; Greek drama; women in Antiquity; Greek religion and mythology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor - Lynn Garafola, Professor, Ph.D., City University of New York, 1985
Interests: Dance History, Criticism and Research
Approved Dissertation Sponsor - Lydia Goehr, Professor, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1987
Interests: Philosophy of music; aesthetics; critical theory; and 19th- and 20th-century philosophy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Stathis Gourgouris, Professor, Ph.D., UCLA, 1990
Interests: ancient Greek theater and philosophy; modernist poetics; theatricality and politics; music and sound in performance
- Jean E. Howard, Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1975
Interests: Renaissance drama and performance; feminist theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor - 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
- Sharon Marcus, Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1995
Interests: Victorian theater and performance; 19th-century theatrical celebrity; theories of acting - Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Martin Meisel, Brander Matthews Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Princeton, 1960- Shayoni Mitra, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., New York University,
2009
Interests: Political performance, Asian performance, postcolonial studies, feminist performance, performance theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor - Julie Stone Peters, Professor, Ph.D., Princeton, 1987; J.D., Columbia, 1997
Interests: Drama, performance, and theatre history, Renaissance through 20th century; film and media; anthropology and performance; cultural history of law and human rights
Approved Dissertation Sponsor - 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 - James S. Shapiro, Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1982
Interests: Shakespeare; medieval and early modern drama; Jewish studies; British poetry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor - 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 - Hana Worthen, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Helsinki,
2007
Interests: Ideology, poltics, ethics and theatre/performance; modern European theatre (Nazism and Communism)
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
- W. B. 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 Ph.D. in Theatre are only a few of the distinguished professors at Columbia and Barnard who offer valuable courses related to the study of Theatre.