Vicki Patraka, Professor
Director, Institute for Culture and Society

ICS offers interdisciplinary Research Cluster Groups for
faculty and graduate students, term-long research residencies for
BGSU faculty, an annual themed Provost Lecture Series with
graduate seminars, a faculty Writing Group and an ad hoc Culture
Studies reading group.

vpatrak@bgnet.bgsu.edu

127 College Park
419-372-0585

Degrees and Institutions:

Courses Regularly Taught: Graduate seminars include Contemporary Ethnic American Drama and
Performance, Feminist Theory and Theatre, Modern American Drama
and Culture Studies, and Contemporary Political Theatre.

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Recent Publications:

Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust (Indiana, 1999)

Signs of Life: Comedies of Menace by Joan Schenkar (Wesleyan, 1998).

Patraka's work on Feminist theatre and performance, on contemporary drama,
and on Holocaust theatre, performance, and museums have appeared
in numerous journals and anthologies.

Contributing editor to the journal Women and Performance

Past president of the Women and Theatre Program.

Past Vice President for Research and Publication, Association for Theatre in Higher Education.