Jonathan Chambers, Ph.D. and M.F.A
Associate Professor  

Office: 223 Wolfe Center
Phone: (419) 372-9618
Email: jonathc@bgsu.edu

 Courses Taught :

  • Contemporary Theory of Performance
  • Critical Traditions in Theatre and Performance, I
  • Critical Traditions in Theatre and Performance, II
  • Staging Image and Text
  • Directing and Staging Theory
  • Modernism and Theatre
  • Postmodern Theory/Postmodern Theatre
  • Principles of Acting
  • Character and Range
  • Research Methods
  • Research and Publication in Theatre and Performance
  • Greek Tragedy
  • Theatre in the Americas
  • Acting: Topics and Applications

Institutions/Professional Companies with which Dr. Chambers has worked:
Before coming to Bowling Green State University, Dr. Chambers taught at St. Lawrence University, and was a company member with the Barter Theatre.

Production or Film Credits:
Dr. Chambers' work onstage and behind-the-scenes is extensive. He has served as director for Bowling Green State University's productions of She Stoops to Conquer (April 2004), Quiet In the Land (February 2005), Unity, 1918 (March 2007),  The Importance of Being Ernest (December 2009), and Bloody Poetry (February 2011). In the Spring of 2012 he will direct The Arabian Nights.

Union or Professional Organizations:

  • ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education)
  • ATDS (American Theatre & Drama Society)
  • MATC (Mid-America Theatre Conference)
  • ASTR (American Society for Theatre Research)

Research / Publications :
Dr. Chambers's book, Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism and American Theatre, 1923-1937, was published in 2006  by Southern Illinois University Press. He has had articles appear in the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, New England Theatre Journal, Theatre Annual, Theatre Symposium, and Theatre History Studies. His scholarship has also appeared in a number of edited anthologies. Additionally, he has had numerous book and performance reviews published in such journals as Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and Theatre Survey. He has served as editor of the journal, Theatre Topics and as Vice President for Research and Publication for ATHE.