Rebecca Worley

Assistant Department Head and Associate Professor of History, Theory and Criticism

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Theatre History, Southern Illinois University, dissertation in progress
• M.F.A, Performance and Pedagogy, Texas Tech University, 2006
• B.F.A, Acting and Directing, Texas Tech University, 2001

Research Interests

• Theatre pedagogy
• Dramaturgy
• Feminist theory/theatre
• Political theatre
• Protest as performance
• South American theatre
• Rhetoric of Place in performance

Professional Organizations

• Association for Theatre in Higher Education
• American Theatre and Drama Society
• American Society for Theatre Research
• Mid-America Theatre Conference
• Texas Educational Theatre Association
• Texas Theatre Adjudicators and Officials
• Alpha Psi Omega National Theatre Honor Society

Selected Publications

• Worley, Rebecca. “Betwixt and Between History and Memory: Liminality and the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo.” Texas Theatre Journal, vol.13, 2017, pp. 1-15.

• Worley, Rebecca. “'Walking with Memory': The Pedagogy and Praxis of Embodied Memory.” METHODS: A Journal of Acting Pedagogy, vol. 2, 2016, pp. 19-40.

• Worley, Rebecca. “Marat/Sade: The Evolution of Revolution.” Texas Theatre Journal, vol. 3, 2007, pp. 35-46.

• Worley, Becca. “Exercise 21: Devised Theatre (a longer project),” 35 and “Exercise 42: Walking with Memory,” 79 in Fletcher, Anne, and Scott R. Irelan. Experiencing Theatre. Indianapolis: Focus, 2015.