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 Women’s,
Gender,
and Sexuality Studies Coordinator

Contact

1310 Ben Graves Drive
Morton Hall
Room 224
Huntsville, AL 35899
Campus Map

256.824.2360
amy.guerin@uah.edu

Biography

Amy Guerin is a faculty member with the UAH Theatre Program. Along with her colleague, Dr. Chad Thomas, 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 Department of Computer Science & Engineering showcasing flying fairy robots alongside human actors, was featured in Wired Magazine, Smithsonian 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, and Oh The Humanity, And Other Good Intentions. Amy received her BFA in Theatre from the University of Oklahoma, and her MFA in Directing 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