Sarah Campbell is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance at Indiana University. She received her B.A. in theatre from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky and her M.A. in theatre with an emphasis in directing from the University of Nebraska Omaha.
She is a recipient of the American Society for Theatre Research's Helen Krich Chinoy Dissertation Fellowship and IU College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Research Fellowship. Her research interests include Contemporary Yucatec Maya language theatre, the intersections of theatre and folklore, touristic performance, and the theatricality of space and place. Her dissertation is titled "Identity in Performance in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Theatre."
She served as President and conference co-chair for Indiana University's Association for Research in Theatre (ART@IU) from 2015-2016 and was Secretary of the Graduate Student Caucus, the graduate student organization of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) from 2014-2015. Sarah is from Louisville, Kentucky.
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