Departments and Programs

• African and African American Studies
• Theater

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~theater/people/edmondson.html

Contact Information

Email: laura.edmondson@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3218
Office: 6204 Hopkins Center

Education

B.A. Indiana University at Bloomington; M.A. University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin

Areas of Expertise

East African theatre; theatre activism; performance of violence and war

Selected Works

• "Genocide Unbound: Erik Ehn, Rwanda, and an Aesthetics of Discomfort," Theatre Journal, 61:1 (March 2009) 65-83.
• "The Poetics of Displacement and the Politics of Genocide in Three Plays about Rwanda," Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict, P Anderson, J Menon, J Reinelt, and B Singleton (eds.) (2008) 54-78.
• "Of Sugarcoating and Hope," The Drama Review, 51:2 (May 2007) 7-10.
• Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage, Indiana University Press, (2007).
• "Marketing Trauma and the Theatre of War in Northern Uganda," Theatre Journal, 57:3 (2005) 451-474.
• "Love in the Time of Dissertations: An Ethnographic Tale," with R O Ajwang, Qualitative Inquiry, 9:3 (June 2003) 466-480.

Current Projects

"Confessions of a Failed Theatre Activist: Intercultural Encounters in Uganda and Rwanda;" Genocide Performed: Transnational Narratives of Violence in Uganda, Rwanda, and the Congo