Program Description

The PhD in Performance Studies is a Graduate Group Program at the University of California Davis. Based in the Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies area of the Faculty of Letters and Sciences, it provides an intellectual home for many disciplinary and performance approaches to Performance Studies.

The Department of Theatre and Dance actively participates in the Graduate Group, and recommends to admit PhD students supported by the department, every year. Students recommended by the Department of Theatre and Dance work closely with faculty in the department, as well as faculty from throughout the program, and usually take up teaching assistantships related to the department as well as those in other departments.

The PhD faculty in the Department of Theatre and Dance are Professors Lawrence Bogad, Lynette Hunter, Peter Lichtenfels and Jon Rossini. Other members of faculty are frequently involved in PhD courses, and in advising and mentoring PhD students through the program. The department is committed both to mainstream PhD work in the history, theory and criticism of theatre and dance, and to performance as research doctoral study.

The current PhD adviser in the Department of Theatre and Dance is Professor Jon Rossini (jdrossini@ucdavis.edu).

The administrative contact is Victoria Dye (vedye@ucdavis.edu).

For detail on the PhD in Performance Studies, please see the program website which will be listed here in May 2010 with web link.