Heather S. Nathans |
Heather Nathans is an associate professor of theater at the University of Maryland, where she is the associate chair of the Theatre Department. She is also the associate director of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora.
Her book Lifting the Veil of Black: Studies in Sentiment and Slavery on the American Stage, 1787–1861, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, and she is working on another book manuscript, Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity in the Antebellum American Theatre. Her previous publications include Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson: Into the Hands of the People (2003, Cambridge University Press) and essays in The New England Theatre Journal, The Journal of Early American Studies, The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Theatre History Studies, and Pennsylvania History Journal.
Nathans has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the American Society for Theatre Research, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Gilder Lehrman Foundation.
She earned her Ph.D. in theater from Tufts University and her A.B. in theater from Dartmouth College.
