Women's StudiesDePauw University
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Women's Studies at DePauw
Debby Geis
Debby Geis (associate professor of English) specializes in modern/contemporary drama and postmodern literature/film, with a special interest in feminist drama and theory. Her first book, Postmodern Theatric(k)s, includes discussions of monologue in the works of Ntozake Shange, Maria Irene Fornes, Karen Finley, and others. She has published articles on a number of feminist playwrights and performance groups in American Drama and other publications.
Elsewhere, she has taught British/American Women Playwrights, Introduction to Women's Studies, American Women Writers, and British Women Writers; at DePauw, her courses have included Contemporary British and Irish Women Writers and American Women Writers. Her current research project is a book on identity politics in American feminist drama, and includes discussions of playwrights Sophie Treadwell, Megan Terry, Anna Deavere Smith, Adrienne Kennedy, and Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as a number of feminist performance artists.
