Leslie Frost

Leslie Frost is a Teaching Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she holds a PhD in English (2000). Her research focuses on American Literature from 1900 to the present, Drama, Modernism, and Performance Studies. She authored Dreaming America: Popular Front Ideals and Aesthetics in Children’s Plays of the Federal Theatre Project (2013), analyzing how 1930s political dynamics influenced Federal Theatre Project plays. She also produced an 80th-anniversary staged reading of It Can’t Happen Here at Historic Playmakers Theatre (2016). Currently, she explores New Deal U.S. Post Office murals through the project Scene at the P.O..

• Education: PhD in English (2000), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Her awards include a Fulbright Grant (2011-2012) for lecturing/research at the University of Cyprus and Girne American University, NEH fellowships (2014, 2017), and a Harvard University invited lecture (2018). She teaches courses such as Rhetoric and Composition, American Literature, and Drama.

Her work bridges historical analysis and performance, emphasizing how cultural projects like the Federal Theatre and Post Office murals reflect democratic ideals and societal memory.