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Tamara Underiner
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Area: Theatre, Film
Category: Faculty Title: Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies Office: Ghall 217 Phone: 480.965.7323 Fax: 480.965.5351 Specialty: Theatre and Performance Studies, Theatre History, Director of Graduate Studies E-mail: tamara.underiner@asu.edu Web Page: http://theatre.asu.edu |
| Bio: Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, she directs the Ph.D. concentration in Theatre and Performance of the Americas, and teaches in the general areas of theatre history and culture studies. Her most recent work is Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico: Death-Defying Acts (University of Texas Press, 2004), and she has also published on indigenous and Latina/o theatre and critical pedagogy in Theatre Journal, Signs, and critical anthologies from the University of Arizona and Routledge Presses. She is active in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the Latin American Studies Association, and the American Society for Theatre Research, where she co-convenes the Research Focus Group in Theatre and Performance of the Americas. She serves on the Board of the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics (based at NYU), and is an affiliate faculty member of ASU’s Center for Latin American Studies. She earned her M.A. in Theatre from Arizona State University in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Drama from the University of Washington in 1997. She joined the ASU faculty in 2001. In 2003 she was named a Faculty Exemplar by ASU President Michael Crow. |
