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Donatella Galella
Donatella Galella is an associate professor at the University of California, Riverside. She researches how systemic racism shapes contemporary American theatre, from the ways white institutions capitalize on Blackness to the persistence of yellowface in musicals. Her essays have been published in journals including Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and books including Reframing the Musical: Race, Culture, and Identity (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Casting a Movement: The Welcome Table Initiative (Routledge, 2019). Her book America in the Round: Capital, Race, and Nation at Washington DC’s Arena Stage (University of Iowa Press, 2019) was an honourable mention for the 2020 Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theatre Research and a finalist for the 2020 Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Contact: University of California, 900 University Ave, Interdisciplinary-South 2104, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.