Bio:
Alison Hyde Pascale is a doctoral student in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interest is the performance of religious and intellectual identity across time and space, with projects on everything from playwrighting nuns, post-activist Hippie cults, the American eugenics movement, and Broadway musicals as reflection of American religious identity. Her current research project concerns devotional identity as performance in Late Medieval British Nunneries. Two upcoming publications include “Punk Nuns and Early Modern Vacationlands: Dramaturgical Approaches to Staging Sor Juana in the Twenty-First Century” in the upcoming collection Dramaturgy and History: Staging The Archive, part of the Routledge Focus on Dramaturgy series and an article entitled “Finding Hair’s ‘Tribe:’ The Story of Indigenous Aesthetic Appropriation in Hair: The American Tribal Love Rock Musical” in MusicTheatreDance. Alison teaches in the Humanities Department at Hostos Community College and the Theatre Department at Hunter College. She holds an MA in Theatre from Villanova University, an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Fairfield University, and a BA in Art History.
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