Dr. Dawn Brandes

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Dawn Brandes is an Assistant Professor at the Fountain School of Performing Arts, Dalhousie University. She specializes in contemporary puppet theatre for adults and has contributed to significant scholarly work, including the Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance, as well as the Canadian Theatre Review and Puppetry International. Her current research focuses on the phenomenology of puppetry and consciousness, with a manuscript based on her dissertation entitled 'Puppet Life'. Additionally, Dawn serves as the Executive Director of the Halifax Humanities Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing free university-level humanities courses to adults living in low-income situations in the Halifax Regional Municipality.

Research Interests

Courses

Puppets: Bringing Objects to Life (THEA4925) Theatre History: Site-Specific Immersive Theatre (THEA4922) Contemporary Theatre (THEA4931) Modern Theatre (THEA3503) Writing for Stage and Screen (PERF1002)