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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Theatre and Media Studies |
| Keywords | 19th century British theatre history, economics and business history of theatre, performance theory, gender and theatre, research methodology |
| Honours and awards | 2024: National Science Foundation 2023: Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar 2020: National Science Foundation 2018: Wenner Gren Foundation Grant 2016: Alexander von Humboldt Research Award 2005: Distinguished Scholar's Prize, American Society for Theatre Research 2001: George Freedley Memorial Book Award, Theatre Library Association 1995: National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship 1994: American Philosophical Society Research Grant 1990: Andrw W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship, Harvard University 1987: Social Science and Humanities Research Council Fellow |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Evanston |
| Institution | Northwestern University |
| Institute | Department of Theatre |
| Homepage | https://www.communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/TracyDavis |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Peter W. Marx | Institut für Medienkultur und Theater, Universität zu Köln, Köln |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/04/2016 |
Programme(s)
| 2015 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Davis is internationally known for her studies in theatre history. She has contributed to the emergence of performance studies as an international field as well as on re-defining theatre history as a genuine contribution to cultural history. During her stay in Germany, she will continue her work on nineteenth-century-theatre with a special focus on processes of international circulation and exchange. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2027 | Tracy C. Davis and Peter W. Marx: Doing Critical Media History. Bloomsbury, 2027 |
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| 2027 | Tracy C. Davis: St. George, Redux: Revisiting Sources to Find Performance . Bloomsbury, 2027 |
| 2025 | Tracy C. Davis and Paul Rae, editors: The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance . Cambridge University Press, 2025 |
| 2023 | Tracy C. Davis: Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform . Cambridge University Press, 2023 |
| 2022 | Tracy C. Davis and Peter W. Marx, eds.: The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography . Routledge, 2022 |
| 2018 | Tracy C. Davis and Stefka Mihaylova, eds.: Uncle Tom’s Cabins: The Transnational Histories of America’s Most Mutable Book. University of Michigan Press, 2018 |
| 2017 | Tracy C. Davis and Christopher B. Balme, general editors: The Cultural History of Theatre, 6 vols.. Bloomsbury, 2017 |
| 2011 | Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: The Broadview Anthology of Nineteenth-Century British Performance . Broadview Press, 2011 |
| 2008 | Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies. Cambridge University Press, 2008 |
| 2007 | Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense . Duke University Press Books, 2007 |
| 2007 | Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: The Performing Society: Nineteenth-Century Theatres History, Volume 5 of Redefining British Theatre History, co-edited with Peter Holland . Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
| 2003 | Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis and Thomas Postlewait, eds.: Theatricality. Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
| 2000 | Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: The Economics of the British Stage, 1800 to 1914 . Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
| 1999 | Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: Playwriting and Nineteenth-Century British Women, co-edited with Ellen Donkin . Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
| 1994 | Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre. Greenwood, 1994 |
| 1991 | Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture. Routledge, 1991 |