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Amy Strahler Holzapfel is an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Theatre, where she teaches courses in Theatre
History, Performance Studies, Dramaturgy, Playwriting, and Dramatic Literature.
Her primary research interests include: visual culture and modern drama,
photography and theatre, medical and anatomy theatres, and German theatre. She
has published articles in the journals Theatre, PAJ: A Journal
of Performance and Art, and
Modern Drama. Her article “The
Roots of German Theatre’s ‘Spatial Turn’: The Social-Spatial Poetics of Gerhart
Hauptmann” will appear in the forthcoming critical anthology Spatial
Turns: Space, Place and Mobility in German Literary and Visual Culture (Rodopi, 2009). She is currently writing a manuscript titled Theatre's 'Visual Turn': Landscape, Portrait, Still Life
and the Rise of Modern Drama, which
considers the influence of visual art and culture on the rise and development of
modern dramaturgy. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Award and, most recently,
a 2008 Research Fellowship from the American Society of Theatre Research. She
holds a Master of Fine Arts and Doctorate of Fine Arts in Dramaturgy &
Dramatic Criticism from The Yale School of Drama.
