艾米丽·克莱因 , Ph.D.
Professional Overview
艾米丽B. Klein, PhD is Professor of 英语 和 faculty advisory board member in Ethnic Studies 和 Women's & Gender Studies at Saint Mary's College of California. She is co-editor of Performing Dream 首页s: Theater 和 the Spatial Politics of the Domestic Sphere (Palgrave Macmillan 2019) with theatre scholars Jill Stevenson 和 Jennifer-Scott Mobley. The volume explores how theatre 和 performance use home as the prism through which we reconcile shifts in national, 文化, 和 personal identity. In her chapter, "Nostalgic Cartography: Performances of 首页town by Pittsburgh’s Squonk Opera 和 San Francisco’s Magic Bus," Dr. Klein investigates how the metaphors of tourism 和 travel inform place-based performance in two rapidly changing civic tech hubs.
Her first book, Sex 和 War on the American Stage: Lysistrata in performance 1930-2012 (Routledge 2014) traces a feminist history of twentieth 和 twenty-first century American 适应s of Aristophanes' most popular comedy, 和 has been featured in The New York Times, Ms. 和 副. Her article, “Seductive Movements in Lysistrata 和 Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq: Activism, 适应, 和 immersive theatre in film” (适应 2020) follows up on that manuscript research.
Dr. Klein's newest scholarship includes "A New Feminist Absurd?: Women’s Protest, Fury, 和 Futility in Contemporary American Theatre," which won the Outst和ing Article Award from Modern Drama in 2022. Her chapter “Let science 和 art have at it”: The Living Newspapers Perform Science to Promote Depression-era Theatre/Squonk Performs Theatre to Promote Trump-era Science" was published in Identity, 文化, 和 the Science Performance, Volume 2: From the Curious to the Quantum (Bloomsbury 2023). Past publications include “To Ethnic Studies—Love Hard, Fight Beautifully:’ A Dialogue with Boots Riley,” co-authored with Boots Riley 和 Michael J Viola (Critical Ethnic Studies 2019)和“Failure to Adapt: Affect, 冷漠, 和 Doomed Reenactments in American Theatre's Militarized Dystopias" in Performance in a Militarized 文化 edited by Sara Brady 和 Lindsay Mantoan, (Routledge 2017). Her work has also appeared in Frontiers, Women 和 Performance, American Quarterly, American Literature, Theatre Journal 和 other scholarly 和 popular publications.
Her teaching 和 research areas include twentieth 和 twenty-first century American political theatre, women's 和 gender studies, performance theory, media 和 film studies, 和 文化 和 ethnic studies.
She earned her PhD in Literary 和 Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University 和 her BA in 英语 from the University of California, 洛杉矶.