Amy E. Hughes

Assistant Professor
Theater

Location: 312b Whitehead Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x2767
Fax: 718.951.4606
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As a teacher, Amy E. Hughes believes in the transformative power of collaboration; she uses a variety of unconventional pedagogical techniques in the classroom. In 2010, Brooklyn College honored her with its Excellence in Teaching Award. As a historian, she investigates the relationship between theater/performance and visual, print and material culture in the US, seeking to understand how spectacle serves as an engine for the circulation of ideas. This is the subject of her first book, Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012). She is now working on two new book projects: a critical edition (co-edited with Naomi J. Stubbs) of the diary of American actor Harry Watkins; and a monograph, Pages from a Player's Diary: A Cultural Biography of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century American Actor, exploring how the diary illuminates gaps in our understanding of antebellum theater and culture.

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