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Dr. Johanna Frank

Associate Professor

B.A. Hons. (Michigan), M.A., Ph.D. (Indiana)

Contact

CHN Rm 2117
519 253 3000 ext. 2306
jfrank@uwindsor.ca

Teaching/ Research Areas:

  • dramatic literature
  • theatre history, criticism, and theory
  • performance studies
  • playwriting
  • feminist studies
  • ethnic and Queer drama

Biography

JOHANNA FRANK, B.A. Hons. (Michigan), M.A., Ph.D. (Indiana), teaches courses in dramatic literature and criticism with a focus on U.S. theatre, feminism, and performance. Her teaching honors include the University of Windsor Provost's Educational Leadership Award and the Alumni Association's Excellence in Mentoring Award. She has received grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, American Society for Theatre Research, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. Her essays appear in journals such as Modern Drama, Performance Research, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Biography. She supports new play development and sometimes freelances as a dramaturg and script editor.
 

  • "Reintroducing Adrienne Kennedy's Diary of Lights." Modern Drama 55.1 (2012): 1-18.

  • Co-author with Lesley Ferris. "A Discourse on Staging a Writer's Worlds." Modern Drama 55.1 (2012): 70-89.

  • "Production History" for "Diary of Lights by Adrienne Kennedy with Lyrics by Sandy Chapin." Modern Drama 55.1 (2012): 100-145. Editor, Modern Drama, Adrienne Kennedy Special Issue. 55:1 (March, 2012).

  • Co-author with Erica Stevens Abbitt, Geraldine (Gerry) Harris, and Roberta Mock. “Aging Provocateurs and Spect(er)acular Pub(l)ic Performances.” Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts. 16:2 (June 2011): 50-56.

  • “Resonating Bodies and the Poetics of Aurality; Or, Gertrude Stein’s Theatre.” Modern Drama. 51:4 (December 2008): 501-527.

  • “Exposed Ventriloquism: Performance, Voice, and the Rupture of the Visible.” Michigan Feminist Studies. Spec. Issue Bodies: Physical and Abstract. 19 (Fall 2005-Spring 2006): 1-26.

  • “Adrienne Kennedy’s Deadly Parts: Pictures, Portraits, and Plays.” Text and Presentation, 2004. Ed. Stratos E. Constantinidis. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005. 158 – 71.