Curriculum Vitae

Joanne Ruth Klein

Professor of Theater, Film, and Media Studies

Cross-Disciplinary Study Area in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

St. Mary's College of Maryland

240.895.4251

E-mail: jrklein@smcm.edu

Educational Background:

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1979. Dramatic Art.
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1974. Dramatic Art.
A.B. University of California, Berkeley, 1971. Dramatic Art.

Areas of Concentration:

Feminist performance: theory and praxis.
Cultural pluralism, performance studies, literary theory.
Modern European dramatic literature, theory, and criticism.
Stage directing.
Film and media studies.

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Teaching Experience:

Professor (dramatic literature, theory, criticism; theatre history; stage directing; introduction to performance; introduction to film and media studies, feminist performance studies; topics in film, media, and performance studies; introduction to women studies; direction of St. Mary's Projects, Honors Program projects, and Independent Student Designed Majors). St. Mary's College of Maryland, Associate Professor,1989-2003, Professor, 2003-present.

Assistant Professor (dramatic literature, theory, criticism, theatre history, stage directing, comparative literature, women studies). The Colorado College, 1985-1989.

Assistant Professor, Arts and Humanities Institute (film section, member of MAT exam and thesis committee), The Colorado College, 1987.

Director of Graduate Studies (graduate and undergraduate courses in dramatic literature, theatre history, theory, criticism, research methods and materials, seminars in selected topics, and stage directing; administration of M.A. and Ph.D. programs, including supervision of dissertations, exams, theses, projects, and curricula). University of Denver, Colorado, 1983-1985.

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (graduate and undergraduate courses in dramatic literature, theory, and stage directing; Western Culture Program: Great Works of Literature). Stanford University, California, 1980-1981, renewed 1981-1982.

Assistant Professor (acting, stage directing, dramatic literature, theatre history, theory, criticism, liberal arts "Foundation" courses). Middlebury College, Vermont, 1977-1980.

Teaching Assistant (dramatic literature, reading and composition). University of California, Berkeley, 1972-1974.

Visiting Teacher/Scholar/Artist:

Visiting Assistant Professor (graduate seminar in Classical Theatre: Text, Performance, Theory). University of Denver, Colorado, 1986.

Guest Artist, The Drama Studio London at Berkeley (workshop in ensemble and improvisational techniques). Berkeley, California, 1980.

Visiting Instructor (acting, stage directing, dramatic literature). Whitman College, Washington, 1976-1977.

Visiting Instructor/Department Head (acting, stage directing, dramatic literature). College of Alameda, California, 1975-1976.

Lecturer/Reader (summer stock production topics). College of the Redwoods, California, 1973 and 1974.

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Administrative Experience:

Coordinator, Cross-Disciplinary Study Area in Women, Gender, and Sexuality (formerly Women Studies), 1997-2004.
Women Studies Steering Committee, 1994-2004.
Middle States Reaccreditation Steering Committee, 1993-1996.
Chair, Department of Dramatic Arts, 1991-1995.
Chair, Faculty Grievance Committee, 1994.
Director of Graduate Studies, University of Denver, Department of Theatre, 1983-1985.
Production Stage Manager, San Francisco Theatre Guild Production of The Cradle Will Rock, 1981.
H ead of Drama Department, College of Alameda, California, 1975-1976.
Producer/Director/Dramaturg, University Theatre Program, KSFO Radio, San Francisco, California, 1974-1975.
Company Co-ordinator, The Grand Comedy Festival at Qual-a-wa-loo, Eureka, California, 1974.

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Publications and Refereed Papers:

"Looking at Looking (at Looking): Experiments in the Interrogation of Spectating." Essay included in anthology of critical work, Audience Participation: Crossing Time and Genre, ed. Susan Kattwinkel. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003.

"Double or Nothing: Obscuring the Object of Desire in The French Lieutenant's Woman and Kiss of the Spider Woman." Rocky Mountain MLA Conference, session on Literature and Other Arts. Scottsdale, AZ, 2002.

"Re-Enacting the Discourses of Testimony: Doing and Undoing Truth." American Society for Theatre Research and Theatre Library Association Conference, seminar on Documentary Theatre. San Diego, 2001.

"Negotiating Diaphragms: Doubling, Redoubling, and Reversing in a Staging of Weldon Rising." Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference, session on Spec(ta)culum of My Other Woman. Washington, D.C., 2000.

"Dismantling the Master's Art." Essay published in Underwire: Annual Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 1, Spring 2000.

"All the World's a Stage: Embodying the Liberal Arts." The Mulberry Tree Papers, Fall 1999.

"Discursive Operations of Scopic Regimes in Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches." Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference, session on Audience Responses to Angels in America. Toronto, Canada, 1999.

"Troubling Thresholds: Phaedra's Love and the Inscription of Virtual Space on the Domestic." Accepted by American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference, seminar on Spacing Out in Feminist Performance. Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1999.

Review of Studio Theatre's Waiting for Godot.Theatre Journal, May 1999, Vol. 51, No. 2.

"Toward Reconstituting Theatre Studies in a Liberal Arts Environment: A Downsized, Upgraded Appropriation of the Performance Studies Model." Mid-American Theatre Conference, session on Towards a Twenty-First Century Theatre Department. Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1999. (Provisionally accepted for publication in Theatre Topics.)

"Unity of Time in the Age of Interculturalism, Performance Art, and Film: Imperfect Illusion in Postmodern Dramaturgy." International Conference and Theatre Festival (Pourquois le theatre?). Toronto, Canada, 1995.

"Strategies for Intercultural Amplification and Textual Disfiguration in Performance: Some Models and Moments." Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference; session coordinator/chair/presenter, session on Classroom Preaching/Mainstage Practice: Grounding and Foregrounding Performance Theories of the '90s. Sponsored by FOCUS group on Theatre and Social Change. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1993.

"Producing Intervention: Strategies for Re-presenting Narrative in Performance." East Central Theatre Conference, session on Disrupting Expectations: Sensualizing Text and Genre. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1993.

"Toward Cultural Diversification of Methods and Materials: Teaching Theatre Intro Courses to General Education Students." Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference on Theatre and Cultural Pluralism. Sponsored by FOCUS group on Theatre as a Liberal Art. Atlanta, Georgia, 1992.

"Feminist Re-visioning/Cultural Grafting: A Staging of Medea: A Noh Cycle Based on the Greek Myth." Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, session on Cross-cultural Directing: Using Asian Techniques to Stage Western Drama. Co-sponsored by the Association for Asian Performance and the Directing Forum. Respondent: Dr. Carol Sorgenfrei, author of the play. Seattle, Washington, 1991.

"De-composed Women/Discomposed Spectators: Refracting the Gaze in The French Lieutenant's Woman, She's Gotta Have It, and Vagabond." Also, Session Chair. Fourth Annual Women's Studies Conference, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1990.

Chair and presenter, session on Women and Performance. National Women's Studies Association Conference, mid-Atlantic region, Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland, 1990.

"Parallax, Paradox, and Performance: Narcissism in Modern Dramaturgy." Popular Culture Association Convention; Chair, panel on Self-Reference, Narcissism, and Performance Art: Trends on the Modern Stage, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1988.

"Time-Space Continua in Beckett and Pinter." Popular Culture Association Convention; Chair, panel on Unlikely Duos: Comparative Analysis and Creative Partnership, Montreal, Canada, 1987.

"Seeing Double: Theatrical Conceits in Cloud Nine." The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 1987, Vol. 1, No. 2.

The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism: Twentieth-Century British Literature, Volume IV, ed. Harold Bloom; "Patterns," reprinted from Making Pictures: The Pinter Screenplays. Chelsea House Publications, 1987.

Making Pictures: The Pinter Screenplays, Ohio State University Press, 1985. Nominated for The Theatre Library Association Award and The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, featured on official Harold Pinter Web site,1986.

"World Without End: Beckettian Time in Pinterian Rooms." Colorado Seminars in Literature Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1986.

"Seeing Double: Theatrical Conceits in Cloud Nine." American Theatre Association Convention, panel on Theatricality in Contemporary British Playwrights, Toronto, Canada, 1985.

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Selected Directing Experience/Public Performance:

The Serpent (van Itallie). St. Mary's College of Maryland, 2004.

Don Juan Comes Back from the War (Odon von Horvath). St. Mary's College of Maryland, 2004.

The Laramie Project (Moisés Kaufman). St. Mary's College of Maryland, 2001.

The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite (Wole Soyinka). Public reading of play for Soyinka residency, St. Mary's College of Maryland, 2001.

Weldon Rising (Phyllis Nagy). St. Mary's College of Maryland, 2000.

Widows (Dorfman, with Kushner). St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1998.

Ardèle (Anouilh). St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1997.

Angels in America: Part One: Millennium Approaches (Kushner). St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1997.

Etta Jenks (Meyer). St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1996.

Fefu and Her Friends (Fornes). St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1994.

Cloud Nine (Churchill). St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1993.

Execution of Justice (Mann). St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1992.

The Threepenny Opera (Brecht). St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1992.

Song of the Lusitanian Bogey (Weiss). St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1991.

The Dining Room (Gurney). St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1990.

Medea: A Noh Cycle Based on the Greek Myth (Sorgenfrei). Adjudicated by the American College Theatre Festival (report available). St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1989.

Feminist Performance Art Piece on Rape. The Colorado College, Colorado, 1989.

Herakles (Euripides). The Colorado College, Colorado, 1988.

"Look Forward to Anger:" Feminist Performance Installation. The Colorado College, Colorado, 1988.

Scenes from an Execution (Barker). Directed and adapted. World premiere stage production of radio play. The Colorado College, Colorado, 1986.

Cloud Nine (Churchill). University of Denver, Colorado, 1984 (Critics' Awards: Best College Production in Colorado, 1984, Jackie Campbell, The Rocky Mountain News; Top Ten Theatre in Colorado, 1984, Alan Stern, The Denver Post).

Toys in the Attic (Hellman). University of Denver, Colorado, 1984.

Tales from the Vienna Woods (von Horvath). Stanford University, California, 1981. (with Jean-Bernard Bucky)

The Butter and Egg Man (Kaufman). Middlebury College, Vermont, 1980.

Equus (Shaffer). Middlebury College, Vermont, 1979.

A Raisin in the Sun (Hansberry). Middlebury College, Vermont, 1979.

The Tempest (Shakespeare). Middlebury College, Vermont, 1978.

The Changeling (Middleton and Rowley). Whitman College, Washington, 1977.

Happy Birthday, Wanda June (Vonnegut). Whitman College, Washington, 1976.

The Contrast (Tyler). The Grand Comedy Festival at Qual-a-wa-loo, Eureka, California, 1976.

A Man's a Man (Brecht). College of Alameda, California, 1976.

The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare). The Grand Comedy Festival at Qual-a-wa-loo, Eureka, California, 1973. (Assistant Director to Carlo Mazzone-Clementi)

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Selected Honors and Awards:

Faculty Service Award, Student Government Association, 2001.

Maryland 2000 Millennial Seminar Grant to support campus visit of Yvonne Rainer, 2000.

Co-Author of successful Japan Foundation grant application for full-time tenure track position in dramatic arts, 1999.

St. Mary's College of Maryland Faculty Development Grants to support conference presentations of refereed papers and student research assistance, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999.

Entrant, 2000 Millennial Artists, 1999.

Entrant, Who's Who in American Education, Fourth Edition, 1993.

Entrant, Marquis Who's Who In Entertainment, Second Edition, 1992.

"Africa . . . for Americans" Symposium Development Grant, St. Mary's College of Maryland, 1990.

Faculty Research and Development Block (one month of released time), The Colorado College, 1986-87, 1987-88, and 1988-89.

Mellon Grant for revision of thematic minor (Cinema Studies), The Colorado College, 1987.

Scholarly Visits Grant (research at The Guthrie Theatre on Liviu Ciulei's production of Euripides's The Bacchae, Minneapolis, Minnesota), The Colorado College, 1987.

The Theatre Library Association Award nomination for Making Pictures: The Pinter Screenplays, Ohio State University Press, 1986.

The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History nomination for Making Pictures: The Pinter Screenplays, 1986.

Benezet Summer Stipend, The Colorado College, 1986.

Divisional Research Fund Grant for preparation of paper; "World Without End: Beckettian Time in Pinterian Rooms," The Colorado College, 1986.

Divisional Research Fund Grant for preparation of article; "Seeing Double: Theatrical Conceits in Cloud Nine," The Colorado College, 1985.

Scholarly Visits Grant (interview of Harold Pinter, Los Angeles, California), The Colorado College, 1985.

University of Denver Faculty Research Grant (final preparation of manuscript, Making Pictures: The Pinter Screenplays), University of Denver, 1983-84 and 1984-85.

Centennial Scholar Award (merit award), University of Denver College of Arts and Sciences, 1984.

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University, 1980-81, renewed 1981-82.

Middlebury College Faculty Research Grant (American Film Institute Archives, Los Angeles, California), 1979.

Peabody award nomination for direction and dramaturgical supervision of University Theatre Program, KSFO Radio, San Francisco, California, 1976.

Dean's Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 1974.

Phi Beta Kappa, 1971.

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Campus/Community Events, St. Mary's College of Maryland:

I. Women Studies Annual Colloquia (2000-present):

• Co-Executive Director, Sixth Annual Women Studies Colloquium: Representations of Sex(uality): Pornography, Obscenity, Deviance, March 2005, St. Mary's College of Maryland.
• Executive Director, Fifth Annual Women Studies Colloquium: Women and Revolution, March 2004, St. Mary's College of Maryland.
• Co-Executive Director, Fourth Annual Women Studies Colloquium: Doing and Undoing Women: Gender Construction in Global Mediascapes, March 2003, St. Mary's College of Maryland.
• Executive Director, Third Annual Women Studies Colloquium: Hardware, Software, Wetware, and Women, March 2002, St. Mary's College of Maryland.
• Executive Director, Second Annual Women Studies Colloquium: Revaluing the Family: New Histories, New Visions, March 2001, St. Mary's College of Maryland.
• Executive Director, First Annual Women Studies Colloquium: Women of Science/Science of Women, March 2000, St. Mary's College of Maryland.

II. Production-related activities (1989-present):

• Coordinator/moderator, Talk-Back Night for Don Juan Comes Back from the War, 2004.
• Coordinator/moderator, Talk-Back Night (with STARS) for The Laramie Project, 2001.
• Coordinator/moderator, Theatre Forum Night for Weldon Rising, 2000.
• Coordinator/moderator, Theatre Forum Night for Widows, 1998.
• Coordinator/moderator, Theatre Forum Night (presented by students from the French townhouse), Ardèle, 1997.
• Coordinator/moderator, Theatre Forum Night: Talk Back for Angels in America, 1997
• Coordinator/moderator, Theatre Forum Night (presented by students from Women Studies), Etta Jenks, 1996.
• Coordinator/moderator, Theatre Forum Night (presented by faculty from Women Studies), Fefu and Her Friends, 1994.
• Coordinator/moderator, Theatre Forum Night: Talk Back for Cloud Nine, 1993.
• Coordinator/moderator, Theatre Forum Night for Execution of Justice, 1992.
• Sponsor, public screening of documentary film, The Times of Harvey Milk, in conjunction with production of Execution of Justice, 1992.
• Moderator, Theatre Forum Night for A Stampede of Zebras, 1992.
• Coordinator/moderator, two Theatre Forum Nights for The Threepenny Opera, 1992.
• Co-presenter (with Merideth Taylor), Faculty Seminar, "Brecht, Spectating, The Threepenny Opera, and a Nickel's Worth of Art," 1992.
• Sponsor/introducer, two public screenings of reconstructed G.W. Pabst film of The Threepenny Opera, 1992.
• Producer, The Colored Museum, directed by guest artist Derek Jones, 1991.
• Sponsor/coordinator, two Theatre Forum Nights for The Colored Museum, 1991.
• Coordinator/moderator, Theatre Forum Night for Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, 1991
• Panel Discussant, Theatre Forum Night for The Crucible, 1990.
• Coordinator/moderator, Theatre Forum Night for The Dining Room, 1990.
• Coordinator/moderator, Theatre Forum Night for Medea: A Noh Cycle Based on the Greek Myth, 1989.
• Panel Discussant, Theatre Forum Night for Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, 1989.
  

III. Guest Scholar/Artist sponsorships (1991-present):

• Sponsor, guest artist residency of Peter Schumann and Bread and Puppet Theatre, "The Possibilitarian Circus," 2002. (Includes: three-day workshop and public performance with over 50 participants from campus and community)
• Sponsor, guest artist residency of Yvonne Rainer, 2000.
• Sponsor, guest artist residency of Peter Schumann and Bread and Puppet Theatre, "The Circus of the Seven Basic Needs and Passion Play for a Young Potato" plus "Insurrection Mass with Funeral Marches for a Rotten Idea," 1999. (Included: three-day workshop and public performance with over 50 participants from campus and community)
• Sponsor, guest residency of Una Chaudhuri, 1999. (Included presentations on environmentalist performance.)
• Sponsor, curriculum workshop with Claire Moses (Chair of Women's Studies at University of Maryland, College Park), for Cross-Disciplinary Study Area in Women Studies, 1998.
• Sponsor, guest artist residency of Peggy Shaw, 1996. (Included public performance and two lecture/workshops)
• Sponsor, guest artist residency of Peter Schumann and Bread and Puppet Theatre, "The Same Boat: The Passion of Chico Mendes," 1995. (Included: two-day workshop and public performance with over 50 participants from campus and community)
• Co-sponsor, guest artist visit of Guy Davis, 1995. (Included: public performance and class workshop)
• Co-sponsor, Rosemarie Tong, Women Studies lecture and workshop presentations, 1993.
• Sponsor, Karen Evans guest artist residency, 1994. (Included: playwriting course and workshop with students from Honors Program)
• Sponsor, Joan Schenkar guest artist residency, 1992. (Included: Faculty Seminar presentation, playwriting workshop, Theatre Forum presentation, and class visitations)
• Host/co-sponsor, Derek Jones guest artist residency, 1991. (Included: directing The Colored Museum, teaching "Multiculturalism and the Classics," Faculty Seminar presentation, Theatre Forum presentation, and class visitations)
• Sponsor, guest artist residency of Peter Schumann and Bread and Puppet, "Columbus: The New World Order--A Pageant," 1991. (Included: three-day workshop and public performance with over 100 participants from campus and community)
• Co-sponsor, Arthur Wilson guest artist residency, 1991. (Included: playwriting workshops and Theatre Forum presentation)

Committee Membership/College Service:

Member, ACCORD II (presidential committee to report on campus diversity) 2001-2002.
Summer Advising (all three sessions), 2002.
Member, Tenure Appeals Panel, 2002.
Member, Search Committee for appointment in lighting design and technical theatre, 2002.
Member, Search Committee for appointment in Japanese performance, 2000-2001.
Member, Search Committee for appointment in scenography, 2000-2001.
Founder, Women Studies Living and Learning Center, 2000.
Member, Search Committee for appointment in lighting design and technical theatre, 2000.
Member, Women Studies Colloquium Committees, 1999-present.
Member, Faculty Senate, 1998-2000.
Member, Cross-Disciplinary Study Areas Executive Committee, 1998-present.
Member, Steering Committee for Cross-Disciplinary Film and Media Studies development group, 1998-present.
Member, General Education Committee, 1997-1998.
Member, Steering Committee for Amazing Grace: Latin American Arts Festival, 1996-present.
Chair, Search Committee for Scenography/World Theatre appointment in Dramatic Arts, 1993-1994.
Participant, PEW Grant interdisciplinary faculty group to implement Environmental Studies in General Education courses, 1993-1995.
Member, Curriculum Committee, 1992-1994.
Member, Search Committee for appointment in Analytical Chemistry, 1992-1993.
Member, Steering Committee for Interdisciplinary Women Studies development group, 1992-present.
Chair, Department of Dramatic Arts, 1991-1995.
Arts and Letters Representative, Faculty Seminars Committee, 1991-1995.
Faculty Mentor, T.O.O.L.S. Program, for first year full-time African-American and Black students, 1991-1992.
Theatre Liaison, Arts Alliance, 1990-1995.
Arts and Letters Alternate Representative, St. Mary's County Arts Council, 1990-1995.
Theatre Liaison, General Education Curriculum Review (Arts History and Creative Expression), 1990.
Chair, Search Committee for Dance/Movement appointment in Dramatic Arts, 1990.
Member, Arts History Steering Committee, 1989-1995.
Member, Search Committee for two appointments in Art, 1989-1990.

Current Organization Affiliations:

Phi Beta Kappa, 1971-present.
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), 1990-present.
Women and Theatre Program, a FORUM member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), 1990-present.
American Association of University Women, 1990-present.
National Women's Studies Association, 1990-present.
International Brecht Society, 1991-present.
Theatre and Social Change, a FORUM member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), 1991-present.
Theatre as a Liberal Art, a FORUM member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), 1991-present.
Association for Asian Performance, 1991-present.
American Society for Theatre Research, 1992-present.
Union of Democratic Intellectuals, 1992-present.
Theatre Communications Group, Charter Member, 1994-present.

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