Assistant Professor
About
Bethany Hughes (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is a performance scholar and cultural historian interested in how performance constructs culturally recognizable categories and offers possibilities to resist or remake those same categories. Her first book, Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity (forthcoming with NYU Press) draws on the fields of Native American Studies, Theatre, and Performance Studies asking questions about racialization, representation, authenticity, and authority. Hughes is also interested in federal Indian law, musical theatre, and how economic and organizational structures shape cultural production. She teaches Introduction to Native American Studies, Authenticity and Representation, Broadway and American Culture, American Performance, and Indigeneity and Performance. Her work can be found in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Mobilities, and Theatre Topics.
Research Area(s)
- Native American representation
- Performance studies
- Race and Identity
Affiliation(s)
- Core Faculty: Native American Studies (NAS)
- Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS)
- Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)
