Prison Creative Arts Project - Professor of Theatre & Drama
About
Ashley Lucas is Professor of Theatre & Drama and the Residential College as well as Director of the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) at the University of Michigan. She is a fellow of the Ford Foundation, the UNC Faculty Engaged Scholars Program, and UNC’s Institute for Arts and Humanities. Lucas is also the author of an ethnographic play about the families of prisoners entitled Doin’ Time: Through the Visiting Glass, which she has performed as a one-woman show throughout the U.S. and in Ireland and Canada. Lucas is working on a book manuscript entitled Prison Theatre in a Global Context, analyzing performances from the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Brazil. Her scholarly publications include articles in the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, the Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Latin American Theater Review, American Music, and Revista de Literatura Contemporania de México. Lucas co-edited a volume entitled Razor Wire Women: Prisoners, Activists, Scholars, and Artists (SUNY Press 2011) and writes a blog by the same title: http://razorwirewomen.wordpress.com.
