Harvey Young

Department of Theatre

Harvey Young is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University, where he also holds appointments in African-American Studies, Performance Studies, and Radio/Television/Film. He is the author of one dozen articles and two dozen reviews/essays on black theatre and performance. His first book, Embodying Black Experience, is forthcoming from The University of Michigan Press (June 2010). Recently, he co-edited, with Sandra Shannon, a special issue of Theatre Topics (March 2009) dedicated to teaching African-American theatre. His current projects include a co-edited anthology, Performance in the Borderlands (Palgrave Macmillan), with Ramon Rivera-Servera and a book-length study of post-1968 theatre in Chicago. Dr. Young is the Director of the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama program.

Education

PhD	Theatre, Cornell University
MA	Theatre, Cornell University
MA	Media Study/Women’s Studies, University at Buffalo
BA	Film Studies, Yale University (with Distinction)

Recent Publications

Young, Harvey (2010). Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

Shannon, Sandra G. and Harvey Young (2009). Theatre Topics: Special Issue on Teaching African American Theatre. Vol 19.1.

Young, Harvey (2008). "Twilight in Tennessee: The Similar Styles of Anna Deavere Smith and Tennessee Williams." In The Kindness of Playwrights: The In(con)fluence of Tennessee Williams on American Drama, Philip Kolin, editor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Young, Harvey (2007). Choral Compassion: Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood and Venus in Smith-Howard, Alycia, Suzan Lori-Parks Casebook. Routledge.

Young, Harvey with David Krasner, Lisa M. Anderson, Nadine George-Graves, John Rogers Harris, Barbara Lewis, and Henry Miller (November, 2006). African American Theatre. Theatre Survey.

Young, Harvey (December, 2005). The Black Body as Souvenir in American Lynching. Theatre Journal.

Recent Awards and Honors

2009	Clarence Simon Award for Outstanding Teaching
2009	African American Studies Outstanding Affliate Award

Recent Fellowships & Grants

2007	Stanford University, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Visiting Faculty Fellowship.
2006	Mellon Foundation/Alice B. Kaplan Center for the Humanities (Northwestern) Grant
2005	National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend
2001	Harvard University, W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Non-Resident Fellowship

Courses

502	Phenomenology
448	Chicago (Regional) Theatre
365-2	American Drama: 1950 to Today
140-1	Theatre in Context

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

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