Professor, Performance as Public Practice / Head, Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor in Drama
Dr. Charlotte Canning is the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor of Drama and a recipient of the University of Texas Systems Board of Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. She has won the 2016 Joe A. Callaway Prize for Best Book on Drama or Theater for On the Performance Front: US Theatre and Internationalism (Palgrave Macmillan) and the 2006 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History for The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance (University of Iowa Press). She has served as president of the American Society for Theatre Research and Director of the Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism. She is a past chair of Faculty Council and the secretary of the General Faculty and Faculty Council.
What do you enjoy most about being a part of the UT Theatre and Dance community?
I have been a part of the UT Theatre and Dance community for over thirty years. The one thing that makes me proudest is the incredible work that our students do. Their ingenuity, brilliance and energy keep me coming back year after year.
What is your favorite thing about Austin?
Austin has the best places to swim! You can swim outdoors the whole year round, even when it's cold!
U.S. Performance History, Feminist History, Theories of Race, Sexuality and Gender, Historiography and History of Infrastructure
Historiography, Research Methods, Theatre History, Staging Origin Stories, Pedagogy
Theatre & the USA. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
On the Performance Front: US Theatre and Internationalism. London: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2015. -- and Thomas Postlewait, eds.
Representing the Past: Essays in the Historiography of Performance. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010.
The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as Performance. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, May 2005.
Feminist Theaters in the USA: Staging Women's Experience. London: Routledge, 1996.
Contact Information
Email address
charlottecanning@
Phone
512-232-5338
Campus location
WIN 2.158