Liz M. Phillips
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I am a strategist with a broad-ranging set of skills: theater maker, visual artist, and professor of performance studies. I value nimble thinking, quick wit, and deep empathy in helping institutions create better, brighter designs.
I am currently appointed as a Visiting Professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where I teach performance studies, theater history, and devised performance methods in the Department of Theater and Dance. I specialize in modern and contemporary drama, theater for social justice, and gender studies.

My current book project, The Radiant Abyss: Boredom and the Modern Stage,  examines the social and aesthetic utility of boredom in confined spaces such as theaters and prisons. 
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I hold a PhD in English from Harvard University, where I  taught from 2014-2021. At Harvard, I also 
served from 2016-2021 as the Executive Director of the Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research and coordinated the Theater and Performance Colloquium from 2014-2017.  During the year 2018-2019, I was a Mellon Fellow at the Council for European Studies at Columbia University.

Outside of the academy, I make theater with the New York-based Cacolet Collective and the Durham, NC-based Delta Boys.

My CV can be found 
here (updated Nov 2021).
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