Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheatre and Media Studies
Keywords19th 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

CountryUnited States of America
CityEvanston
InstitutionNorthwestern University
InstituteDepartment of Theatre
Homepagehttps://www.communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/TracyDavis

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Peter W. MarxInstitut für Medienkultur und Theater, Universität zu Köln, Köln
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2016

Programme(s)

2015Humboldt Research Award Programme

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)

2011Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: The Broadview Anthology of Nineteenth-Century British Performance . Broadview Press, 2011
2008Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies. Cambridge University Press, 2008
2007Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense . Duke University Press Books, 2007
2007Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: The Performing Society: Nineteenth-Century Theatre’s History, Volume 5 of “Redefining British Theatre History,” co-edited with Peter Holland . Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
2003Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis and Thomas Postlewait, eds.: Theatricality. Cambridge University Press, 2003
2000Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: The Economics of the British Stage, 1800–1914 . Cambridge University Press, 2000
1999Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: Playwriting and Nineteenth-Century British Women, co-edited with Ellen Donkin . Cambridge University Press, 1999
1994Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre. Greenwood, 1994
1991Prof. Dr. Tracy C. Davis: Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture. Routledge, 1991