The department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGS) is composed of administrators, a Program Advisory Committee (PAC) and Teaching Faculty.

WGS Administrators oversee planning, programming, and day-to-day operations.

The WGS Program Advisory Committee (PAC) is made up of faculty and staff who consult on curricular matters, choose scholarship and award winners, and advise on vision and programming.

The WGS Teaching Faculty includes numerous faculty members (from several colleges at UAH) who teach classes designated as Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies courses.

 

Ms. Amy Guerin

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Theatre Interim Director of Theatre & Film Women’s,
Gender,
and Sexuality Studies Coordinator

Contact

1310 Ben Graves Drive
Morton Hall
Room 278M
Huntsville, AL 35899
Campus Map

256.824.2360
amy.guerin@uah.edu

Biography

Amy Guerin is an Associate Professor with the UAH Theatre Program. Amy is also the co-founder and co-Artistic Director of Huntsville Shakespeare. She previously taught at Texas A&M University. In 2009, Amy’s production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a collaboration with A&M’s Computer Science & Engineering showcasing flying fairy robots, was featured in Wired Magazine, and on NPR, and NBC News. She has also directed Lend Me a Tenor, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Conduct of Life, Bus Stop, Measure for Measure, An Ideal Husband, Tartuffe, Machinal, I and You, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, tempOdyssey, She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms, Oh The Humanity And Other Good Intentions, Our Town, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Revolutionists, Henry V, Airness, The Winter’s Tale and, The Antelope Party. Amy received her BFA in from the University of Oklahoma, and her MFA from the University of Houston.

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Website

Personal Blog


Education

  • M.F.A., Theatre Directing, The University of Houston, 2006
  • B.F.A., Theatre, University of Oklahoma, 1998

Credits

  • 2009 MasterMind Award
  • 2014 Smithsonian Magazine Article
  • 2015 Presentation at TAMU X
  • 2016 Book Chapter Publication

Expertise

  • Contemporary American Theatre
  • Contemporary Acting Technique
  • Non-Realist Directing Practice
  • Arts Entrepreneurship
  • Ensemble/Devised Work
  • Deconstructionist Theatre Studies
  • Contemporary Playwriting
  • Script Analysis