Dr. Jason Fitzgerald

Biography

Jason Fitzgerald holds an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama and a PhD in Theatre from Columbia University’s Department of English and Comparative Literature. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in 2020, where he taught in the Department of Theatre Arts. His studies focus on U.S. cultural development from the postwar period to the present, with a particular interest in the political and philosophical foundations of theatrical form and the changing fate of humanist thought. His current book project, 'Theatre and Humanism,' reconsiders the relationship between politics and performance in the U.S. during the 1960s, mapping how avant-garde theatre artists of that decade transformed their practices in grappling with the limitations of universalist humanism inherited from the left-wing counterculture. His research and teaching interests include ecocriticism, antifascism, disaster studies, camp queer performance, feminism, and African-American drama. Fitzgerald has served as the Book Review Editor for Theatre Journal from 2019 to 2021, and his essays and reviews have appeared in various publications including Modern Drama and Public Books. He is also a practicing dramaturg and theatre critic, with multiple reviews published in outlets like Village Voice and Back Stage.

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