Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor
of Theater and English
Joseph Roach has chaired the Department of Performing
Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, the Interdisciplinary
PhD in Theatre at Northwestern University, and the Department
of Performance Studies at NYU. His books and articles include
Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (Columbia,
1996), which won the James Russell Lowell Prize from MLA and
the Calloway Prize from NYU, The Player's Passion: Studies
in the Science of Acting (Michigan, 1993), which won
the Barnard Hewitt Award in Theatre History, and essays in
Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, The Drama Review, Theatre
History Studies, Discourse, Theater, Text and Performance
Quarterly, and others. He has served as Director of Graduate
Studies in English and Chair of the Theater Studies Advisory
Committee at Yale.