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Dan Poston
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater
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dposton@colgate.eduI am an interdisciplinary theater, performance, and literary scholar with a reflective, anthropological and philosophical bent. My expertise is in global and transcultural theater histories as well as British and American literature and aesthetics of the long 18th century. Other current research and teaching foci include performance studies and performance art, ensemble-generated theater, making theater in academic, scientific, and techological settings, Elizabethan and 17th-century poetry and drama, the history of the novel from the early modern period to the present, contemporary European theater, psychoanalysis and literature, and indigenous North American theater and diplomacy.
Before coming to ĢƵ, I taught literary and cultural studies, theater history, and performance studies for ten years at the University of Tübingen, one of Germany's oldest universities, within the English and American Studies department and the Comparative Literature program. I have also taught at Baruch College, as well as at the Technische Universität Berlin and at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires.
Beyond the university, my creative experience has included opportunities to write and perform for theaters in New York, California, and Oregon as well as for many international art-world contexts, including MoMA, Museum Ludwig, the Dallas Art Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Le Musée Fabre, the Liverpool Biennial, the Berlin Biennale, and Art Basel. I have also previously worked in high-tech interdisciplinary science labs, in government and campaigning, and in journalism.