Department Faculty - Theatre

Sara Warner

Sara Warner is Assistant Professor of Theater and a core faculty member of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University in May 2003. She holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from San Francisco State University and a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Louisiana State University.

Sara is the President of the Women and Theatre Program of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education and the Drama Division Delegate of the Modern Language Association. Her publications include "The Medea Project: Mythic Theater For Incarcerated Women” (Feminist Studies, Summer 2004, a special issue on women in prison), "'Do You Know What Bitch Is Backwards?': Mythic Revision And Ritual Reversal In The Medea Project: Theater For Incarcerated Women" (Dialectical Anthropology, 2001), and "Performance Anxieties: Science, Sexuality And Safe Counsel" (Nineteenth Century Prose, 1999). She is currently working on two books, Outrage: Lesbian Performance and the Politics of Anger and Mythic Theater: Performance, Postmodernity and Post-secularity.

Her areas of interest include dramatic literature, performance studies, theater and social change, theories of gender and sexuality, and instructional technology.

For more information, visit Sara’s website.