Department Faculty - Theatre

Nick Salvato

Nick Salvato (A.B., Princeton University; Ph.D., Yale University) is Assistant Professor of Theatre and a member of the graduate faculty of English. He has published articles in Theatre Journal and Camera Obscura on such topics as camp theory and soap opera divas, and a more recent essay on YouTube performance has been accepted for publication by TDR. His article, “Uncloseting Drama: Gertrude Stein and the Wooster Group,” won the journal Modern Drama’s award for Outstanding Essay of 2007. This piece is adapted from his current book project, “Uncloseting Drama: American Modernism and Queer Performance,” which investigates the relationship between modernist closet drama and contemporary queer performance and which will be published in 2010 by Yale University Press, as part of the series Yale Studies in English. With Maria Fackler of Davidson College, he has also begun research for a collaborative book project on the histories and representations of relationships between women and gay men. His teaching interests include modern drama and theatre, American modernism, queer performance theory and practice, parody, and the history of melodrama.