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Laura Getting ready for The Romance of Theater: American Drama and Its Stories, Seville, 28-30 May
Laura Writing! About THE SOUND OF MUSIC and Austrian identity, Matthew Warchus's directing, and a Dutch fan's spectatorship of WICKED.
Faculty Member, American Studies
University of East Anglia, School of American Studies
University of Edinburgh, Politics and International Relations
University of Toronto, Drama Centre
About
Research
My PhD thesis investigated long-running Broadway musicals from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and argues that their response to and awareness of economic, social and political change sustained the musical as a viable commercial and popular culture form.
I will continue applying an interdisciplinary approach to a book-length project investigating musical theatre performance in post-war Germany, Japan and the Philippines (the three largest non-English speaking markets for musical theatre), to suggest the production of American musicals allowed these countries to practice democracy and embody national pride, as they progressed through their own periods of (American influenced) democratization.
Courses taught:
The American Musical
"What Happened?" America in the 1970s
Theories of Culture I: Popular Culture
Theories of Culture II: Identity & Ideology
Americas II: New Frontiers
Rhetoric and Composition I
