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Title
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Michelle Gibbs
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Description
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Dr. Michelle Cowin Gibbs, Ph.D., M.F.A., is an assistant professor and head of the B.A. program in Theatre Arts at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, IL. Her scholarly research interests include a spectrum of interdisciplinary studies in Black theatre and dance studies and solo autoethnographic performance. Michelle has publications in the Black Theatre Review; the Journal of American Drama and Theatre; Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies; and book chapters in Impacting Theatre Audiences: Methods for Studying Change (Routledge 2022); Hurston in Context (forthcoming Routledge 2023); and Enveloping Worlds (forthcoming 2023). As a Zora Neale Hurston scholar, Michelle is interested in tracing the relationship between Hurston’s work as an anthropologist, ethnographer, and playwright. Her current work is a digital project that cross-references Hurston’s play text, personal narratives, anthropology, and ethnographic works to examine perceptions of early twentieth-century Black women identities.
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Date Accepted
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2023
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Track
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Digital Publishing
Erin Wolfe
Irma McClaurin