Department Faculty - Theatre

Sara Warner

Sara Warner is Assistant Professor of Theater and a core faculty member in the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and the Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Studies Program. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University, an M.A. from San Francisco State University, and a B.A. from Louisiana State University.

Sara’s research interests include dramatic literature and performance studies, theater and social change, theories of gender and sexuality, and affect theory. She is currently working on two manuscripts: Disaffected: Emotions, Politics and Radical Lesbian Performance and Feeling Better: ‘Reformances’ of Rehab and Recovery. Her work appears in Theatre Journal, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Feminist Studies, Dialectical Anthropology, and Nineteenth Century Prose.

Sara currently serves as Secretary of the Association for Theater in Higher Education
(ATHE), where she chairs the Electronic Technology Committee, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS).  She is the Immediate Past President of the Women and Theatre Program and the former Drama Division Delegate for the MLA.

For more information, visit Sara’s website.