Bess Rowen, Assistant Professor of Theatre at Villanova University, recently returned from leading a summer study abroad program for graduate students in Ireland. The course, called the Irish Summer Studio, involved leading students through a week of archival research in Galway and then two weeks of coursework at The Lir Academy in Dublin, including her […]

Mark Cosdon spent the fall 2023 semester teaching a course on contemporary US theatre at Sicily’s University of Palermo.  This past year, Cosdon was invited to make presentations at the University of Rome – Sapienza and the University of Bergamo. Cosdon was awarded a spring 2024 Fulbright to Egypt, but ultimately declined the honor.  Cosdon […]

Amy Huang received a 2024-2025 short term Balch Institute Fellowship at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to support her project, Further than Firsts: Theatre History and Early Asian American and Diasporic Theatre Artistry, which focuses on several artists who could be considered among the first Asian diasporic theatre artists to work in the United States and Britain […]

Dorothy Chansky was a Fulbright Fellow in Poland during the spring 2024 semester.  She taught two classes in American drama at the University of Lodz and also gave guest lectures at universities in Paris, Thessaloniki, Krakow, and Nafplio.