Pamela Cobrin
Senior Lecturer in English, Director of the Writing Program, Director of the Speaking Program, Co-Director of the First-Year Seminar Program
Department
American Studies, English, First Year Foundation, Speaking Fellows, Theatre, Writing Fellows
Office
216 Barnard Hall
Contact
212-854-2724
pcobrin@barnard.edu
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Pamela Cobrin teaches writing and dramatic literature courses in English and Theatre and for the American Studies Program. She is the Director of Writing and Speaking Programs and Co-Director of First-Year Seminar.? She received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from NYU.?Her scholarship includes her book,?Taking Place: From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broadway, Women and the New York Stage, 1880-1927?(University of Delaware Press, 2009), guest editing two issues of?Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory?titled "Domestic Disturbances" and “Aging” respectively. ?She has also published in Scholar and Feminist Online, TDR, American Theatre Magazine and Theatre Insight.? Most recently, she published a chapter in Women and Theatre (Palgrave, 2020), “Performing the Nation State: An Examination of Female Representation in 19th Century American Theatre and the American Imagination.” She has also published scholarship on Writing Center pedagogy and Disability/Accessibility, Exploring Attitudinal, Programmatic, and Physical Access for Students with Disabilities, in Writing Centers and Disability (Fountain Head Press, 2017).?
BA, University of Delaware
MA, Brooklyn College
PhD, New York University
Writing pedagogy
Written and spoken rhetoric
United States theatre history
United States National Identity and Performance
Performance Studies