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Ann Haugo

Director, School of Theatre and Dance
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MLB Milner Library 129
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ahaugo@ilstu.eduemail
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Biography

Professor Haugo serves as the Director for the School of Theatre and Dance and Producer of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Her teaching and research focus on American Indian and First Nations theatre and performance and gender in U.S. theatre and performance. She is a core faculty member for the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program and affiliated faculty with Native American Studies and Ethnic Studies.

Current Courses

THE 104.001 Fundamentals Of Theatre II

THE 287.004 Independent Study

THE 176.001 Arts And Society:Theatre

THE 103.003 Fundamentals Of Theatre I

THE 103.005 Fundamentals Of Theatre I

THE 130.002 Introduction To Costume

THE 130.004 Introduction To Costume

THE 348.001 Playwriting

THE 448.001 Playwriting

Teaching Interests & Areas

U.S. theatre and performance; Indigenous theatre in the Americas; theatre history; gender studies.

Research Interests & Areas

Indigenous theatre in U.S. and Canada; Indigenous representation in theatre, film, and popular culture in the U.S.; decolonial theory and practice; feminist theatre; oral history.

PhD Theatre History

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

MA Theatre History

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BA English/Theatre

Bemidji State University

Fellow

Mid-America Theatre Conference
2023

Book, Chapter

Native American Drama: A Historical Survey
Ann Haugo
(2013), Indigenous American Drama: A Multivocal History, SUNY Press
Persistent Memories: An Interview with Spiderwoman Theatre
Ann Haugo
(2009), Performing Worlds into Being: Native American Women's Theatre, Miami University Press
American Indian Theatre
Ann Haugo
(2005), The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, Cambridge University Press
Native American Drama
Ann Haugo
(2004), A Blackwell Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama, Blackwell Publishing
Weaving a Legacy: An Interview with Muriel Miguel of Spiderwoman Theater
Ann Haugo
(2002), The Color of Theatre: Race, Culture, and Contemporary Performance, Continuum
"Circles upon Circles upon Circles:" Native Women in Theatre and Performance
Ann Haugo
(2000), American Indian Theater in Performance: A Reader, UCLA American Indian Studies Center Press
Interview with Lisa Mayo of Spiderwoman Theatre
Ann Haugo
(2000), American Indian Theater in Performance: A Reader, UCLA American Indian Studies Center Press

Book, Edited

Querying Difference in Theatre History
Ann Haugo & Scott Magelssen
(2007), Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Journal Article

Decolonizing Motherhood: Images of Mothering in First Nations Theatre
Ann Haugo
Theatre History Studies, 35 (2016), 269-284, (2016)
Colonial Audiences and Native Women's Theatre: Viewing Spiderwoman Theatre's Winnetou's Snake Oil Show from Wigwam City
Ann Haugo
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, (Fall 1999), (1999)
Negotiating Hybridity: Native Women's Performance as Cultural Persistence
Ann Haugo
Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 7:2-8:1 (1995), 125-141, (1995)

Magazine/Trade Publication

Storytime on the Stage: Native Playwrights and Troupes
Ann Haugo
Native Peoples Magazine, (March/April 2008), (2008)

Presentations

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Enhancing the Theatre Experience
Ann Haugo, Ah-Jeong Kim
National Association of Schools of Theatre Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, March 17, 2023
Envisioning Revolution and Restoration: A Roundtable on Land Acknowledgment
Ann Haugo
Mid-America Theatre Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, March 3, 2022
Administrators Reading "Indigenizing the Academy:" Decolonial Action or Romance?
Ann Haugo
Decolonizing Institution Norms: Syllabi and..., Orlando, Florida, August 8, 2019
Decolonizing the Theatre History Sequence: Student Agency and Indigenous Knowledges in the Settler Colonial Academy
Ann Haugo
Mid-America Theatre Conference, Cleveland, OH, March 7, 2019
Oral History, the Archive, and Local Theatre Practice: Documenting the History of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival
Ann Haugo
Re-thinking and Re-invigorating Local Histories, Cleveland, OH, March 7, 2019