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Hana Worthen
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Theatre
Hana Worthen is the Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in theatre. Before joining Barnard’s faculty in 2008, she taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Helsinki and the University of Tampere in Finland, and at the Charles University in Prague and the Masaryk University in Brno. At Barnard, she teaches courses related to her research on performative culture and totalitarianisms, nationalist rhetoric and the Holocaust, European drama and theatre studies, censorship and the arts, and dramaturgy.
She has been awarded grants from the German Academic Exchange Service, from both the Czech and the Finnish Academies, and from the Finnish Cultural Foundation. Most recently, she has held a research fellowship in the Germanic languages and literatures and the theatre and drama departments at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation was published as Playing “Nordic”: The Women of Niskavuori, Agri/Culture, and Imagining Finland on the Third Reich Stage, University of Helsinki. Her articles on modern dance and the Third Reich, on the use of political allegory as a strategy of theatrical resistance during the German occupation of Czech lands, on Czech dissident theatre in the 1970s, and on the ethics of allegory in contemporary theatre have appeared in Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, and GRAMMA: Journal of Theory and Criticism. Her translation of Juha Jokkela's Mobile Horror was recently produced at the Švandovo divadlo in Prague.