Lecturer â Theater Histories, part I
Lecturer â Theater Histories, part I
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The Theater Department of Rutgers Universitys Mason Gross School of the Arts is seeking an instructor for the following course for the fall 2025 semester: Theater Histories part I 07:965:281:01/02 3 credits All of theater is a conversation with collaborators audiences contemporaries and the past. In order to criticize and reflect on our present day we need to understand where we have been. THEATER HISTORIES is the start of that conversation. It is a first step in understanding what came before this very moment we find ourselves living in today. This course aims to develop a set of conceptual and analytical tools for the close reading and interpretation of plays and historical texts as blueprints or scores for theatrical performance. It provides an analytical vocabulary and dramaturgical skillset useful both to students with a general interest in theater as an artistic and cultural form and to aspiring theater-makers whether in acting directing design dramaturgy or other areas. Please note that due to the number of students enrolled the department will be offering two sections of Theater Histories part I for fall 2025. Each section of Theater Histories part I meets twice a week for 1hr 20 minutes each for fourteen weeks per semester. Theater Histories part I and Theater Histories part II are a requirement for first-year BFA students in all concentrations in the Theater program. Theater Histories part II will be offered in spring 2026. The successful applicant will have experience in (and knowledge of) the subject of theater history and dramaturgy in both western and non-western cultures and will possess college-level teaching experience.
Overview
Mason Gross School of the Arts a vibrant community of artists and scholars is committed to pursuing excellence innovation and inclusivity. Its 1200 students reflect the diversity of New Jersey the fourth most diverse state in the nation. In addition to its professional arts training programs Mason Gross provides the larger community an opportunity to embrace the creative arts through its divisions of Rutgers Arts Online and Rutgers Community Arts. The school is housed within RutgersNew Brunswick a premier Big Ten research university that serves some 50000 students and is the flagship campus of Rutgers the State University of New Jersey. The nations eighth oldest institution of higher learning Rutgers is less than an hour by train or car to New York City and the beautiful beaches of the Jersey Shore and just over an hour to Philadelphia.
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