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Zachary A. Dorsey
Zachary A. Dorsey is a scholar specializing in GLBTQ+ art and activism, musical theatre, pedagogy and representations of violence. As an associate professor at James Madison University, he teaches performance analysis, musical theatre history, dramaturgy and other theatre studies courses. Prior to his arrival at James Madison University in 2012, he taught at St. Lawrence University in the Department of Performance and Communication Arts and the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies. His writing appears in Studies in Musical Theatre, Research in Drama Education, Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy, Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, Theatre Annual, e-misférica, The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Troubling Traditions: Canonicity, Theatre, and Performance in the US (Routledge, 2021). He is a graduate of the performance as public practice program in the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Theatre and Dance. He was also a co-creator of Virginia’s first regularly recurring Drag Storytime series.
Contact: School of Theatre and Dance, James Madison University, Forbes Center for the Performing Arts, MSC 5601, 147 Warsaw Avenue, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USA.