Christy Stanlake

Christy Stanlake is a Professor in the English Department at the United States Naval Academy. She specializes in Contemporary American Theatre with a focus on Native American drama and performance studies. Her scholarly works include Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective (2009) and co-authored Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre (2019). As a practitioner, she directs theatre productions applying Indigenous performance theories, such as Te Ata and Green Grow the Lilacs, which toured to the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

Teaching areas include Rhetoric, Dramatic Literature, Shakespeare, and Native American Literature. She has served as Director of the Masqueraders, the Academy's theatre program, since 2002. Her research bridges scholarly analysis with applied theatrical praxis, emphasizing Indigenous cultural expression and decolonial methodologies.