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Nov 11, 2020 • Caitlin Burns
By Nikolai Kachuyevski '21 For Allyson McCreery, who has been teaching "Strategic Nonviolence & Civil Disobedience" since 2013, it is important that her students come away with the tools necessary to be able to assess civil resistance movements: how they’re organized and what components...
Sep 26, 2019 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Jonathan Shandell, associate professor of Theater Arts, was one of eight finalists for the Theatre Library Association’s George Freedley Memorial Award for his recent book, The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era. The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era...
Feb 19, 2019 • Caitlin Burns
Dr. Jonathan Shandell, associate professor of Visual and Performing Arts, discussed themes and the artist’s struggle during a reading and signing of his recent book, The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era, on Feb. 13. The American Negro Theatre, a theater in Harlem during the...
Dec 12, 2018 • Jen Retter
Dr. Jonathan Shandell, associate professor and co-director of Theater Arts, was featured in an episode of the "New Books on African American Studies" podcast. Dr. Shandell discussed his new novel, The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era, which unpacks the legacy of the American...
Aug 15, 2018 • Jen Retter
Dr. Jonathan Shandell, associate professor of Theatre Arts, published his second book, The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era, through University of Iowa Press. Dr. Shandell’s text is the first comprehensive analysis of American Negro Theatre (ANT), a historic group founded...
Apr 25, 2018 • Caitlin Burns
By Caitlin Joyce '20 On March 29, a panel, “1968: Transformations in Art, Media, and Culture,” discussed how political and social climate changes during that year influenced pop culture. The panel, part of the Global 1968: Explosions and Legacies series, featured Dr. Bruce Campbell Jr.,...
Aug 18, 2016 • Caitlin Burns
Jonathan Shandell, associate professor of Theater Arts, co-edited Experiments in Democracy: Interracial and Cross-Cultural Exchange in American Theater, 1912-1945, alongside Dr. Cheryl Black, professor of theatre and director of graduate studies at the University of Missouri. Published by Southern...
Feb 25, 2015 • jretter Retter
Dr. Jonathan Shandell, associate professor of theater arts, won the Publication Subvention Award from the American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS). The award will support the publication of illustrations for his essay “Turning ‘Negroes’ into ‘People’ on Stage: ‘Anna Lucasta’ in Harlem and on...
Jan 12, 2015 • Purnell Cropper
Jonathan Shandell, Associate Professor of Theater Arts, recently presented his essay "Back to the Present: Contemporary Ephemera in the Theater History Classroom" at the annual conference of the American Society for Theater Research (ASTR). Shandell's presentation was part of the working group...
Dr. Jonathan Shandell is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts. As a published theater historian, his scholarship focuses on issues of race and integration on the American stage of the mid-20th century. He is the author of The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era (University of Iowa Press, 2019) and co-editor of the anthology Experiments in Democracy: Interracial and Cross-Cultural Exchange in American Theatre, 1912-1945 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016). Other publications include chapters in Visions of American Tragedy (forthcoming from Bloomsbury), The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre, African American Review, Journal of American Drama and Theatre,Theatre Topics, Cambridge African American National Biography, Theatre Survey and other leading academic journals. Jonathan has presented his research at annual conferences of the Modern Language Association (MLA) the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), Comparative Drama Conference and for other professional organizations. Jonathan has previously held appointments as an Affiliated Writers/Jerome Foundation fellow with American Theatre magazine, Adjunct Professor of Theater Studies at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, and Graduate Teaching Fellow at Yale University. At Arcadia, Jonathan teaches courses in theatre history, script analysis, dramaturgy and dramatic literature. He holds MFA and DFA degrees in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama.
Race and integration on the American stage, mid-20th Century; African American theater history; American theater history
Yale School of Drama 2007
Doctor of Fine Arts, Major in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism
Yale School of Drama 2001
Master of Fine Arts, Major in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism
University of Michigan 1994
BA, Major in Theater, English LIterature
Author • 2018
Book, University of Iowa Press
Co-Editor • 2016
Book, Southern Illinois University Press
Co-Authored with Dr. Cheryl Black, University of Missouri
Author: chapter on Langston Hughes
Contribution to book, Bloomsbury
Co-Authored with David Palmer, editor
Author - chapter on The Negro Little Theater Movement • 2012
Contribution to book, Cambridge University Press
Co-Authored with Harvey Young, editor