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Heather S. Nathans is a Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and the Nathan and Alice Gantcher Professor of Judaic Studies at Tufts University. She holds appointments in the School of Arts and Sciences and serves as Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion (2021–2024). Her research focuses on race, gender, and ethnicity in U.S. theatre, with expertise in African American and Jewish American theatre, 17th/18th-century French drama, and theatre historiography. She edits the Studies in Theatre History and Culture series (University of Iowa Press) and has received major awards including the John W. Frick Book Award and Barnard Hewitt Award. Nathans has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Mellon Foundation, NEH, and the Katz Center for Judaic Studies. She served as past-president of the American Theatre and Drama Society and American Society for Theatre Research.
Education: PhD in Theatre History (Tufts University, 1999); AB in Theatre (Dartmouth College, 1990). Her teaching spans graduate and undergraduate courses on Jewish American theatre, race/ethnicity/gender in performance, and acting techniques. She has organized conferences on topics like slavery in performance and directs projects on prison education and early American drama.
