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Maurya
Wickstrom
Associate Professor
Performing and Creative Arts
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Maurya Wickstrom
Associate Professor
Office
: Building 1P
Room 203F
Phone
: 718.982.2530
Fax
: 718.982.2537
wickstrom@mail.csi.cuny.edu
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Degrees :
B.A. 1981 Franklin and Marshall College
M.F.A. 1986 Tulane University
PhD. 2001 Graduate Center, City University of New York
Biography / Academic Interests
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Professor Wickstrom is trained as a director and after receiving her M.F.A. wrote, produced and performed for eight years in New York City with an experimental theatre/performance company that she co-founded, Zone West. The group also performed in San Diego, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Chicago, funded by the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art supported by the Jerome Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts; the Puffin Foundation, and others. She is currently the coordinator of the Drama Program at CSI. She directs plays at CSI each year, choosing a range of contemporary and classic texts from Euripides, to Moliere, to Buchner, to Naomi Wallace. She also mentors student work each year – ranging from conventional small theatre pieces to performance and devised work and has made the Drama program a participating member in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Wickstrom has designed an innovative new curriculum for the Drama program. Examples of classes offered now offered three courses in Performance Histories, the Theatrical Imagination, Theatre and Education, Theatre and Therapy, Theatre and Social Change, Women and Performance, New Performance, Junior and Senior Projects and, of course, Acting, Directing, and Design. At the Graduate Center she has taught, most recently, “Global Political Theatre and Performance,” and “The History of Theatrical Theory.”
Scholarships / Publications
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Professor Wickstrom’s book, Performing Consumers: Global Capital and it Theatrical Seductions, 2006, is published by Routledge Press, and has received excellent reviews in major theatre journals. The book is a series of theorized case studies in the ways that corporations use theatrical, embodied methods to absorb consumers into brands. Stores in the book included Niketown, Ralph Lauren, Disney, and the Forum Shops in Las Vegas. She has essays in leading theatre journals, including Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Theatre Survey, Theatre Annual, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. She has also published an article on Disney in the anthology, Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions from Wesleyan Press, and an essay in Changing the Subject: Marvin Carlson and Theatre Studies, 1959-2009, edited by Joseph Roach and forthcoming from Michigan Press in November, 2009. She is working on a new book called Neoliberal Speculating: Performance, Human Rights, Traveling Bodies. Professor Wickstrom regularly gives papers at major theatre conferences. Most recently, she gave a paper at Performance Studies International in Copenhagen and convened a panel at the American Society for Theatre Research Conference called “Theorizing Dissensus.”
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