Katie Gough holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of California-Berkeley. Prior to coming to UVM, she taught in the American Conservatory Theatre MFA program in San Francisco, the Dept of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at UC-Berkeley, and in the School of Culture and Creative Art at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
An academic, writer, and educator, Katie is an Associate Professor of English and is affiliated faculty in the Program in Theatre & Dance. In 2011 she was awarded a UK Arts and Humanities Research Fellowship during which time she wrote Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic: Haptic Allegories (Routledge 2013). The book is a comparative feminist study of performance and examines the cultural and political intersections of African American and Irish artists, activists, and movements from 1845-2005. In 2014, Kinship and Performance won the Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship in African American Theatre from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). In 2017, “The Art of the Loop: Analogy, Aurality, History, Performance” (TDR: The Drama Review 2016) was awarded the Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize from ASTR & The Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History at UT-Austin.
Her most recent book, Theatre and the Threshold of Death: Lectures on the Dying Arts is forthcoming from Bloomsbury | Methuen Drama, January 2024
For CV and full text of selected publications go to: https://vermont.academia.edu/KatieGough
