Shirley Huston-Findley
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Professor and Department Chair of Theatre and Dance; South Asian Studies
Phone: 330-263-2543
Office: Wishart 118
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CV/Resume: Download
Degrees
- B.A., Indiana University at South Bend 1986
- M.A., Miami of Ohio, 1989
- Ph.D., University of Missouri 1998
- THTD 101: Introduction to Theatre Research and Writing
- THTD 244: Origins of Drama
- THTD 245: Feminism and Theatre
- THTD 246: Dramatic Theory and Criticism
- THTD 301: Playwriting
- THTD 401: Junior Independent Study
Her research includes the following:Disparate Voices of Indian Women Playwrights: Creating a Profession, Ed. Shirley Huston-Findley, Lexington Press,2019; 淢arathi Theatre Today: An Interview with Shanta GokhaleTheatre Topics,29.3(November 2019); Performance Review:厂辞惫别谤别颈驳苍迟测听补苍诲听Jefferson檚 Garden听颈苍听Theatre Journal听(惭补谤肠丑听2019);听Footpaths and Bridges: Voices from the Native American Women Playwrights Archive, Edited by Shirley Huston-Findley and Rebecca Howard, U. of Michigan Press, 2008, Second printing (paperback), 2011; 淯nderstanding Cultural Perspectives Through Greek and Hindu Theatre inEducation About Asia(Volume 17, no.1, spring 2012) 44-48; 淚n Pursuit of Well-Being: The Purpose, Process, Pleasure and Pain of FormingBoomerang Intergenerational Theatre Company, co-author Jamie Carroll Morris,Theatre/Practice: The Online Journal of theActing/Directing Symposium of the MATC, <www.theatrepractice.us/> (2012); Co-author, 淯ndergraduate Research in the Fine Arts at the College of 黑料老司机, inCreative Inquiry in the Arts and Humanities: Models of Undergraduate Research. Eds. Naomi Yavneh Klos, Jenny Olin Shanahan, and Gregory Young. Council on Undergraduate Research, 2011; 淩e-visioningThe Rainmaker, co-authored with Dr. Suzanne Burgoyne, inText and Performance Quarterly, July 1996;Talk Back Move Forward: 100 Years of Alzheimer檚. Dir. Anne Basting. Conceptual Team Anne Basting, Shirley Huston-Findley, Brad Lichtenstein, Kathryn Louis and Peter Whitehouse. Interview Team Anne Basting, Shirley Huston-Findley, Chuck Findley, Kathryn Louis. U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2007. DVD.
Shirley received a Fulbright-Nehru Research Grant for 2013-14. During the spring semester, she traveled throughout India conducting interviews with Indian women involved in the world of theatre. These interviews and her continued research culminated in her latest monograph, Disparate Voices of Indian Women Playwrights: Creating a Profession (2019).