2007-8 Faculty and Staff

Faculty | Staff

Faculty

Evan Carton teaches in UT's Department of English, where he holds the Joan Negley Kelleher Centennial Professorship in Rhetoric and Composition. A specialist in 19th and 20th century American literature and literary history, he is the author of three books of criticism. His biography of the abolitionist John Brown, entitled Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America, brings together his interests in American transcendentalism, abolition and American racial relations, and the intersection of politics, religion, and rhetoric in American history and culture. Professor Carton also founded and directs the University of Texas Humanities Institute.

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Matthew Daude Laurents is the chair of the Department of Philosophy, Religion, and Humanities at Austin Community College, where he also directs The Ethics Resource Center. A teacher-scholar of wide-ranging interests, he regularly teaches and develops ACC curriculum for courses in the History of Philosophy, World Religions, and Logic. Professor Daude Laurents also trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and was clinical director in a treatment center before returning for his doctorate in philosophy and beginning his college teaching career.

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Jill Dolan holds the Zachary T. Scott Family Chair in Drama and heads UT's graduate program in theatre history/criticism/theory with an emphasis on performance as public practice. She is the author of four books on theater history, performance practice and theory, and spectatorship, most recently Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre. Professor Dolan is a past president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and of the Women and Theatre Program of the ATHE. She is also the former Executive Director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she taught for five years.

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Jim Sidbury, Associate Professor of History at UT, is a scholar of the social and cultural history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and of early African American history. Professor Sidbury's book, Ploughshares Into Swords: Race, Rebellion and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810, uses Gabriel's Conspiracy to analyze the emergence of a black Virginian sense of collective history and identity. He is currently writing a book on conceptions of Africa in early (1760-1830) African-American culture.

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Stacy Wolf, Associate Professor in UT's Department of Theatre and Dance, a scholar of theatre history, theatre spectatorship, performance pedagogy, and American musical theatre, is the author of A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical. Her teaching specialties include courses in musical theatre history, dramaturgy, dramatic literature (especially since 1880) and play analysis, world theatre history and performance, and reception theories. Professor Wolf also serves as the advisor to student dramaturgs on productions at UT and in Austin's community and professional theatres.

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Staff

Sylvia Gale, Consultant and Founding Director, Free Minds Project
sylviag@mail.utexas.edu

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Vivé Griffith, Free Minds Project Director
Humanities Institute
(512) 232-6093
freeminds@humanitiesinstitute.utexas.edu

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De 'Borah Jones, Recruiter/Advisor
Austin Community College
(512) 223-7621
djones2@austin.cc.edu

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Erika Leos, Economic Education Coordinator
Foundation Communities
(512) 447-2026 ext. 26
Erika.Leos@Foundcom.org

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Jaclyn Pryor, Writing Consultant
Performance as Public Practice Program, UT's Department of Theatre and Dance
jaclyn.pryor@gmail.com

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Mercedes Martinez, Free Minds Project Assistant
Humanities Institute
(512) 232-6093
catawumpus@gmail.com

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