Dan Bacalzo Profile

Ph.D. Performance Studies New York University
M.A. Performance Studies New York University
B.F.A. Theatre Performance Wichita State University
B.A. English Literature Wichita State University

Primary Scholarly Interests:

• Community-based Performance
• Asian American Theatre
• Dramaturgy
• Devised Performance
• Theatre History

Applied Theatre (THE 3540)
Creating New Theatre (TPP 4601)
Devising Performance (TPP 3293)
Ecologies of Performance (THE 3560)
Foundations of Civic Engagement (IDS 3300)
Hnrs: Community-based Performance (IDH 3930)
Script Analysis (THE 3303)
Survey of Dramatic Literature (THE 2300)
Theatre Appreciation (THE 2000)
Theatre History (THE 2100)

Selected List

• 2019 “Asian American Experimental Theatre and Solo Performance.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2015 “David Henry Hwang’s Golden Opportunities.” In The Theatre of David Henry Hwang by Esther Kim Lee. Methuen Drama, 141-152.
• 2009 “The One That She Wants: Margaret Cho, Mediatization, and Autobiographical Performance.” Embodying Asian/American Sexualities, ed. by Gina Masequesmay and Sean Metzger. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 43-50.
• 2003 “A Different Drum: David Henry Hwang’s Musical ‘Revisal’ of Flower Drum Song.” The Journal of American Drama and Theatre. Vol. 15, No. 2, 71-83.
• 2001 “Portraits of Self and Other: SlutForArt and the Photographs of Tseng Kwong Chi.” Theatre Journal. Vol. 53, No. 1, 73-94.

Selected List

• 2019 "Empathy and Environment in The Jungle" - Comparative Drama Conference, Orlando, FL
• 2018 "An Ecocritical Perspective on Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People" - Comparative Drama Conference, Orlando, FL
• 2016 "Global Flows of Capital and Terror: An Analysis of Ayad Akhtar's The Invisible Hand" - Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Miami, FL
• 2016 "Extreme Actions: Dissent and Mutability in The World of Extreme Happiness" - Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore, MD
• 2015 "The Inexplicable Redemption of Misrepresentation: The Vietnam of Vampire Cowboys" - Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Chicago, IL
• 2014 "David Henry Hwang and the Politics of Nostalgia" - Comparative Drama Conference, Baltimore, MD
• 2013 "David Henry Hwang's Golden Opportunities" - Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM

Florida Gulf Coast University

• 2019 Scholarship-Research Venture Capital Fund
• 2019 Communities in Transition Grant
• 2019 Professional Development Fund Grant
• 2018 Aquila Award for Outstanding Student Scholarship Support
• 2017 FGCU Innovative Assignment Award Grant
• 2017 Seidler Undergraduate Scholarly Collaboration Fellowship
• 2016 Professional Development Fund Grant
• 2016 FGCU Innovative Assignment Award Grant

Outside FGCU

• 2015 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar Grant