Katie Gough holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of California-Berkeley (2005). Prior to coming to UVM, she taught in the American Conservatory Theatre MFA program in San Francisco (2005), the Dept of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at UC-Berkeley (2005), and in the School of Culture and Creative Art at the University of Glasgow in Scotland (2006-2014).
An academic, writer, and theatre maker, Katie serves as the resident dramaturge and is an Associate Professor of Theatre & Dance at UVM. 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 2016) was awarded the Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize from ASTR & The Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History at UT-Austin.
She is currently working on The Dying Arts.
For CV and full text of selected publications go to: https://vermont.academia.edu/KatieGough
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS (since 2010)
• Humanities Center Faculty Fellow, UVM Humanities Center, 2021-22
• Scholar Teacher Award 2020-21, College of Arts & Sciences, UVM, Awarded 12 May 2020; Lecture 17 Feb 2021.
The Scholar Teacher Award honors faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences who have consistently demonstrated the ability to translate their professional knowledge and skills into exciting classroom experiences for their students. They are faculty who meet the challenge of being both excellent teachers and highly respected professionals in their own disciplines.
• Contemplative Faculty Fellow 2020-21, UVM Contemplative Faculty Learning Community, Awarded 10 June 2020
• Small Grant Research Award ($3000), for Archival Research at the Live Art Development Agency, London (Feb 2019), UVM College of Arts & Sciences, Awarded February 6, 2018
• Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize for “The Art of the Loop: Analogy, Aurality, History, Performance” (TDR 2016), American Society for Theatre Research & Brockett Center for Theatre History & Criticism, UT-Austin, Awarded November 18, 2017
• Lattie F. Coor Programming Grant in the Arts & Humanities ($2500) to help fund UVM Theatre Symposium 2018, Theatre & Performance Studies: New Millennium Pedagogies, Awarded October 2017
• UVM Humanities Center and OVPR Summer Research Award ($7K), for Research and Development of Coracles, Castanets, Cadaqués at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Awarded April 2017
• Vermont Artists’ Space Grant, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, for staged reading of Coracles, Castanets, Cadaqués (Summer 2017), Awarded January 2017
• UVM Office of the Vice President for Research Express Award ($3K), For Research in the Eleonora Duse Special Collection at the University of Glasgow (May-June 2016), Awarded November 2015
• Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship in African American Theatre, American Society for Theatre Research for Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic: Haptic Allegories (Routledge 2013), Awarded November 2014
• Scottish Crucible Fellow (30 fellows selected from across Scotland for collaborations in science, technology & the arts), 2013
• Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Fellowship, UK, Principal Investigator (£42K), 2011
