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.

 

Dr. Chad Thomas

Department Chair of English, English Associate Professor, English

Contact

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

256.824.6323
chad.thomas@uah.edu

Biography

Dr. Chad Thomas is the chair of English, an associate professor of Shakespeare and dramatic literature in English, co-founder and co-artistic director of Huntsville Shakespeare, and the former director of the Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program. He teaches classes for English, the Honors College, the Theatre program, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Positing a connection between subjectivity and spectatorship, his research attempts to theorize the manifold responses cross-gender casting elicits from audiences, artists, and critics. His scholarship has been published in Shakespeare Bulletin, Comparative Drama, Theatre Topics, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Period, and the essay collection Shakespeare on the Campus Stage (published by Cambridge University Press.) He also participates in creative work and has professional credits as producer, director, actor, and dramaturge of Shakespeare’s works. As a theater practitioner, he is most interested in the dynamics of cross-gender casting and the ways the performance of gender can create unexpected or unintentional meaning.

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Website


Education

  • Ph.D., English, University of Michigan, 2009
  • M.A., English, University of Michigan, 2003
  • M.A., English, University of North Texas, 2002
  • M.S., Theater, University of North Texas, 2000
  • B.F.A., Theater, University of New Mexico

Credits

  • Macbeth, Macbeth, Rocket City Shakespeare, 2016
  • Director, The Laramie Project, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2015
  • Dramaturge, Richard III, Rocket City Shakespeare, 2015
  • Director, A Midsummer Night's Dream, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2015
  • Director, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2014
  • Touchstone & dramaturge, As You Like It, Rocket City Shakespeare, Huntsville, 2014
  • Baptista, The Taming of the Shrew, Rocket City Shakespeare, Huntsville, 2014
  • Joe Keller, All My Sons, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2013
  • Director, The Tempest, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2012
  • Director, The Comedy of Errors, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2011

Affiliations

  • American Society for Theatre Research
  • Association for Theatre in Higher Education
  • Modern Language Association
  • Renaissance Society of America
  • Shakespeare Association of America

Expertise

  • Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
  • Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Studies
  • Theater and Performance Studies
  • British, American, and World Drama
  • English Renaissance Literature

Recent Publications

  • Review of "Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare." Theatre History Studies 32: 2012

  • "On Queering Twelfth Night," Theatre Topics 20.2: 2010

  • "Negotiating the Interregnum: The Political Drama of Davenant and Tatham," 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Period 10: 2004

  • Review of "Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare." Theatre History Studies 32: 2012

  • "On Queering Twelfth Night," Theatre Topics 20.2: 2010

  • "Negotiating the Interregnum: The Political Drama of Davenant and Tatham," 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Period 10: 2004