Training
•Bullet: The PhD treats theatre and performance research as intertwined scholarly, pedagogical, and artistic practices
•Bullet: Students develop research and writing, including practice-based research, alongside pedagogy and personalized work in directing, devising, dramaturgy, or design
•Bullet: Faculty approaches span performance and cultural studies, ethnography, digital humanities, postcolonial and intercultural theory, museum studies, and socially engaged performance
Professional Development
•Bullet: Mentored teaching, research and graduate-assistant work can develop classroom, library, administrative, event, and faculty-research experience
•Bullet: Regular colloquia and an exchange with Louisiana State University address publishing, dissertations, funding, teaching, and academic and nonacademic careers