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Theatre, Film and Dance Department - Cornell University

Department Faculty - Theatre

Nick Salvato

Nick Salvato is Assistant Professor of Theatre. He received a Ph.D. in English from Yale University in 2006 and a B.A. in English from Princeton University in 2000. He has published articles in Camera Obscura, Modern Drama, and Theatre Journal. His current book project is Uncloseting Drama: Modernism’s Queer Theatres.

Nick teaches courses on world theatre history, modern drama and theatre, British and American drama, and twentieth-century aesthetics and culture. His additional research interests include American modernism, queer performance theory and practice, and the history of melodrama.