Theresa Carilli, Ph.D.
Professor
Carilli@calumet.purdue.edu
Phone: (219)989-2628
Fax: (219) 989-2008
Biography
Theresa
Carilli’s scholarly and creative work explores the connection between
culture and the creative process.
Carilli has authored two books of plays, Familial Circles (Guernica
Editions, 2001), and Women As Lovers(Guernica
Editions, 1996), edited a special theater issue of the journal Voices
in Italian Americana (1998), and co-edited an anthology of
articles about media depictions of ethnic groups, Cultural Diversity
and the U.S. Media (SUNY, 1998).
Her scholarly articles and performance texts include:
Verbal Promiscuity or Healing Art: Writing the Creative/Performative Personal
Narrative
(in The Future of Performance Studies: Visions and Revisions,
NCA press, 1998); Still Crazy After All These Years: Italian
Americans in Mainstream Film (in Cultural Diversity and the U.S.
Media, SUNY, 1998); Big
Boy (in Ultimate Performance Monologues, Smith and
Krause, 2001); Aftershocks (in Women on the Verge,
St. Martin’s press, 1999); Captivity
(in Curraggia, Women’s Press of Canada, 1998).
She has been the scriptwriter for the award winning videos Without Due
Process: A Family’s Account of the Japanese American Internment (2001),
The Mastery of Teaching: A Profile of Yjean Staples Chambers
(2000), and Tales from the Classroom (1999).
She has authored over 75 conference papers and presentations and
has had plays and performance texts produced both nationally and
internationally. She is a
member of the editorial board of Voices in Italian American and
The Journal of Communication Studies.
In
2003, Carilli served as the conference planner for the Performance Studies
Interest Group of Central States Communication Association. Recently, she co-edited a book, Women and the Media: Diverse
Perspectives and a series of her solo monologues, Permanent
Damage, was performed at Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale
As a professor, Carilli has served on over 100
graduate committees. 20
graduate students who have worked with Carilli have presented their work
at regional or national conferences.
Education
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Performance Studies
M.A., University of Connecticut, Communication Sciences
B.A., University of Connecticut, English Literature
Courses Taught
Oral
Interpretation
Advanced Oral Interpretation
Theories of
Oral Interpretation
Qualitative
Research Methods
Focus Group
Research
Introduction
to Ethnic Studies
Ethnicity and
Communication
Ethnicity and
Film
Women in the
Media
Primary
Research Areas
Theater and
Performance
Ethnography
and Autoethnography
Ethnic
Studies
Women's
Studies
Personal
Narrative
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