Shannon Steen
Contact
steen21@berkeley.edu15H Dwinelle Hall
Title:
Associate Professor; Associate Dean for Programs & Planning, College of Letters & Science
About:
Professor Steen writes and teaches about race and performance, primarily in the intersection of the African American and Asian American worlds. She is the author most recently of?Racial Geometries: The Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific, and American Theatre?(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010; part of the Studies in International Performance Series), and is co-editor of?AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics?(New York University Press, 2006). She has published articles in?Theater Journal?as well as?Essays in Theater/études Théatrales. She is currently at work on her new project?ReOrientations: California and the Performance of Cultural Location. Before joining the faculty at Berkeley, she taught for the M.F.A. acting program at A.C.T. in San Francisco, and in the English Department at Northwestern University.
Education: Ph.D. in Drama and Humanities, Stanford University
Research interests:
Critical Race and Performance Theory
American Studies
US Histories of Popular Performance
US Urban Development
Globalization Studies
Role:
Senate Faculty