Michelle Salerno Curriculum vitae Bellarmine University Theatre Program 2001 Newburg Road Louisville, KY 40205 Email: [email protected]

Email: [email protected] Website: michellesalerno.net

EDUCATION Present

Ph.D. Candidate, Theatre, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL Graduate minor in European Union Studies Dissertation: “Playing American: Race and Citizenship in American Theatre and Performance during the Great War, 1917-1919” Advisor: Valleri Robinson Examination Fields: General Theatre History, Dramatic Literature of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Classical Drama on Women and War, Queer Theory, Theatre History and Dramatic Literature of Italy

2010

M. A., Theatre, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL Graduate minor in Gender and Women’s Studies

2003

Bachelor of Arts in Theatre, New School University: Eugene Lang College, New York, NY.

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Present

Adjunct Instructor, Department of Theatre, Bellarmine University, Louisville, Kentucky

Spring 2015 Instructor, Inner Voices Social Issues Theatre Program, The Counseling Center and Department of Theatre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Il.

BOOK REVIEWS Review of Theatre and Violence by Susan Nevitt, Theatre History Studies, Volume 35, Accepted for Publication. Review of Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film and the Politics of Representation by Cynthia Baron, Diane Carson and Mark Bernard, Journal of Popular Culture, 48.3 June 2015. Review of Performance, Politics, and the War on Terror: 'Whatever it Takes,’ by Sara Brady, Theatre Survey, 55.1 January 2014

DRAMATURGY PROGRAM ESSAYS “Playing at Art: Education in the Age of No Child,” No Child… by Nilaja Sun, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Spring 2013. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Fall 2010. Killer Joe by Tracy Letts, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Spring 2010.

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Necessary Targets by Eve Ensler, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Spring 2009.

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE Article Editorial Assistant, “Faith, Politics, and Performance.” Ecumenica, a journal of theatre and performance, Volume 5.2 Issue Editorial Assistant, Special Issue: “Asia and Theatre Historiography” Theatre Survey, Volume 54.1 Research Assistant to Editor of Theatre Survey, Esther Kim Lee, 2011-2012

OTHER PUBLICATIONS “Coming to the End of the Beginning: The Great War Initiative,” Days and Memory: A Blog of the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, Jan 20, 2015 Web.

SCHOLARLY AWARDS 2010-2015

Wilbur B Menefee Scholarship, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Department-Wide Competition

2015

University Fellowship, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois. Department-Wide Competition

2014

Alternate, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Graduate Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. University-Wide Competition

2014

Department Travel Award, NeMLA Conference, Harrisburg, PA, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Department-Wide Competition

2013

Conference Travel Award, ATHE Conference Orlando, FL, Graduate College, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University-Wide Competition

2013

American Society of Theatre Research ASTR Co-sponsorship for Events for “Landscapes: Performance Space and Culture Graduate Conference.” Nation-wide Competition.

2013

American Theatre & Drama Society (ATDS) Graduate Student Fellowship. Nation-wide Competition.

2013

Association for Theatre in Higher Education Graduate Student Fellowship. Nation-wide Competition.

2011

Conference Travel Award, American Society of Theatre Research ASTR Conference Montreal, Canada, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL. University-Wide Competition

2011

American Society of Theatre Research (ASTR) Graduate Student Fellowship. Nation-wide Competition.

2011

Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship (FLAS), US Department of Education/European Union Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL. Nation-wide Competition

2010

Participant, Focal Point Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Research Group on “Race, Region, and Sexual Diasporas,” University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL. University-Wide Competition

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2010

Foreign Language and Area Studies Annual Fellowship (FLAS), US Department of Education/European Union Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL. Nation-wide Competition.

2009

Conference Travel Award, Southern Comparative Literature Conference Phoenix, AZ, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. University-Wide Competition

2009

Conference Travel Award, Performance Studies International Conference Zagreb, Croatia, Graduate College, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. University-Wide Competition

2008

Graduate Assistant to Department of Theatre, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. DepartmentWide Competition.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS 2015

“Inspired Discoveries: Alice Dunbar Nelson’s Mine Eyes Have Seen in Kansas City, Missouri,” MidAmerican Theatre Conference, Kansas City.

2014

“What a Frenchman Can Do with a Spoon: The Making of Character in Valiant Hearts: The Great War,” Then and Now: Theatre and Performance of The Great War, University of Illinois.

2014

“Theatre Research Methods,” Level 21 Graduate Colloquium, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana IL.

2014

“Jersey Shore in Florence: The Real Reality of the Failed Diasporic Subject,” Midwest Popular and American Culture Association Conference, Indianapolis.

2014

“One Mother for the Nation: The Use of the Maternal in Franca Rame’s La Madre,” Northeastern Modern Languages Association, Harrisburg.

2014

Participant in Articles-in-Progress Session, Mid-American Theatre Conference, Cleveland.

2014

“Finding Love in Monstrous Places: Actresses and the Historiographic Tools of Character-Making” The Fifteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Urbana, Illinois.

2013

“Inner Voices: Hearing What Students Have to Say” American Theatre Archive Project Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Dallas.

2013

Session Coordinator and Chair: Playing in the Margins: Outsiders in Modern American Theatre, presented “Friendly Enemies and Anti-Germanism during the Great War,” Associate for Theatre in Higher Education, Orlando.

2013

"Friendly Enemies: Popular Comedy and Anti-Germanism during the Great War," At Play in the Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, DePaul University, Chicago.

2013

“Precarious Stagings,” Invited Respondent, The Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History, University of Illinois Urbana, IL.

2011

“Dramatic Armor: Liberty Theaters, Racial Segregation, and the Funding of Americanization during the First World War,” American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Montreal, Canada.

2011

“Queering the Colonial Encounter: Satire in Dario Fo’s Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas,” (Dis)locating Queerness Graduate Symposium: Race, Region, and Sexual Diaspora, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

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2010

“I’m Your Daddy Now: The Exploitation of Heteronormativity in Very Young Girls,” Queer Theory: Here & Now, Then & There (Graduate Colloquium), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

2009

“Black and White: The Use of American Racism as Soviet Propaganda,” Southern Comparative Literature Conference, Phoenix, AZ.

2009

“The Days of Silence and Truth: Performing Conflict in Public Schools,” Performance Studies International, Zagreb, Croatia.

2009

“The State of Doctoral Program in Theatre and Performance Studies,” Invited Panelist, Conference on Doctoral Programs In Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING 2014-2015

Programming Assistant, “The Great War: Experiences, Representations, Effects,” University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL. Faculty Organizers: Professors Michael Rothberg and Marcus Keller

2013

Co-Chair, “Landscapes: Performing Space and Culture,” Graduate Conference, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

2013

Organizing and Programming Committee, “The Fourteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History,” University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

2011

Co-Organizer, “(Dis)locating Queerness Graduate Symposium: Race, Region, and Sexual Diaspora,” University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

2009

Organizing Assistant, “Conference on Doctoral Programs In Theatre and Performance Studies,” Department of Theatre, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. Faculty Organizer: Professor Esther Kim Lee

EVIDENCE OF TEACHING EXCELLENCE Included on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students at University of Illinois. Measured according to student responses to questions on teaching effectiveness and overall course quality as determined by end of the semester course evaluation forms. An average rating of 4.5 out of 5 must be achieved to be included in the list. Spring 2013 Fall 2012 Spring 2011 Spring 2010 Fall 2009

Introduction to Asian American Theatre, Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies Introduction to Theatre Arts Introduction to Theatre Arts Introduction to Theatre Arts

2014

Invited Presentation, “Creative Strategies for Productive Discussions,” Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor of Record Positions at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL. Introduction to Theatre Arts Online, Department of Theatre (2014-2016, Fall 2013) Public Speaking, Department of Communications (Spring 2014, 2015)

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Introduction to Asian American Theatre, Departments of Theatre and Asian American Studies (Spring 2013) Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies (Fall 2012) Introduction to Theatre Arts, Department of Theatre (2009-2011) Teaching Assistantships at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL. Theatre History, Department of Theatre (2013-2014) General Social Work Practice Methods and Practice 1, School of Social Work (Summer 2014) Sexualities, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies (Spring 2013) Introduction to Popular TV and Movies: Gender, Girls, and Sports, Departments of Communication and Gender and Women’s Studies (Spring 2010) Additional Teaching Experience Instructor, Men’s Movie Critic Group, Champaign County Jail, Urbana, IL. (2013-2015)

GUEST LECTURES 2013

“Creative Exercises for Productive Discussions,” Campus-Wide Teaching Orientation Session, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL.

2010

“Dessert and Conversation: Macbeth,” Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL.

SERVICE 2015-Present

Vice President, Representative to the Committee on Conferences, ASTR Graduate Student Caucus.

2015-Present

ASTR/TLA ad hoc Library Committee Member, ASTR.

2013-2014

Graduate Mentor for Theatre Studies Undergraduate Capstone Projects, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

2012-2014

Treasurer, Theatre Student Organization, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL.

2013

Alumni Adjudicator, The 2014 New School Challenge, The New School, New York, NY.

2013

Graduate Student Peer Ambassador, Graduate Student Caucus, American Society for Theatre Research, Dallas, TX.

2012-2013

Member, Krannert Center Student Fee Advisory Committee, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL.

2012-2013

Graduate Representative, Ad-Hoc Committee on Interdisciplinary Scholarship, American Society for Theatre Research

2011-2012

President, Theatre Student Organization, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL.

2011

Member of Graduate Resources Committee, Graduate Student Caucus of the American Society for Theatre Research, Montreal.

2011

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered & Transgendered Ally Training, Counseling Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

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American Theatre and Drama Society American Society for Theatre Research Mid-America Theatre Association

THEATRE PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE Directing 2014 2014 2009 2007 2007 2004

Mine Eyes Have Seen, by Alice Dunbar Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. Assistant Director, Wait Until Dark, Parkland College, Champaign, IL, Dir. JW Morrissette. GUM by Karen Hartmann, Armory Free Theatre, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL. The End by Shoshana Currier, Manhattan Theatre Source, Estrogenius Festival, New York, NY. ARDEN: The Lamentable Tragedie of a DUMBO Real Estate Mogul, adapted by Jeffrey Horne and Michelle Salerno Spring Theatreworks, New York, NY. Assistant Director, WordPlay(s): Gertrude Stein Cubed adapted by Beverle Bloch from texts by Gertrude Stein, Theo Ubique Theatre Company, Chicago, IL, Dir. Beverle Bloch.

Dramaturgy 2014 2014 2013 2010 2010 2009

Pictures 2, Directed by Carrie Winship, Playwriting Symposium, MidAmerican Theatre Conference. Wait Until Dark, Directed by JW Morrissette, Parkland College, Department of Theatre, IL. No Child…Nilaja Sun, Directed by Latrelle Bright, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Directed by Robert Anderson, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. Co-Dramaturg, Killer Joe by Tracy Letts, Directed by Robert Quinlan, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts,Department of Theatre, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. Co-Dramaturg, Necessary Targets by Eve Ensler, Directed by Linda Gillum, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Department of Theatre, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.

Stage Management 2014 2011 2007 2006 2004 2004

Sub-Stage Manager, Wait Until Dark, Parkland College, Champaign, IL, Dir. JW Morrissette, 2014. An Evening of Performances: Dear Dan Savage…It Only Get’s Better When We Make It So! and Material Boy: An Adaptation of Queer South Asian Fiction (Dis)locating Queerness Graduate Symposium: Race, Region, and Sexual Diaspora,University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL. Mark Twain: Timeless Humor, Adapted and Directed by Cecilia Rubino for ‘Meet the Artist’ Series, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY, 2007. Little Red: Lost in the Woods by Alex Baack, Directed by David Michael Holmes, Toy Box Theatre Company, New York, NY, 2006. Life Without Parole, Please! by Beth Patton, Directed by Benjamin Lloyd, Kraine Theatre, New York, NY, 2004. Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act by Athol Fugard, Directed by Peter Wallace, New York Fringe Festival, New York, NY, 2004.

Producer: 2006-2008 2006

Associate Producer, Spring Theatreworks, New York, NY, 2006 – 2008. Production Intern, Ibsen+Fosse 2006, Director Sarah Cameron Sunde, 59E59 Theatres, New York, NY 2006.

Adaptations 2007

ARDEN: The Lamentable Tragedie of a DUMBO Real Estate Mogul, adapted by Jeffrey Horne and Michelle Salerno from the texts of Arden of Feversham by Anonymous and Arden of Faversham by George Lillo, Spring Theatreworks, New York, NY, 2007.

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REFERENCES J.W. Morrissette Department of Theatre, University of Illinois 4-122 Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 500 S. Goodwin Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 Email: [email protected] Phone: 217-333-2371 Valleri Robinson Department of Theatre, University of Illinois 4-122 Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 500 S. Goodwin Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 Email: [email protected] Phone: 217-333-2371 Esther Kim Lee Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of Maryland 2823 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center College Park, Maryland, 20742 Email: [email protected] Phone: 301-405-6692

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