Executive Committee Member
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 award-winning book, Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity (NYU Press) explores the artistic, racial, and political impact of the stereotypical "Indian" in American theatre history. Hughes is also interested in the everyday enactment/performance of federal Indian law, musical theatre, Critical University Studies, and contemporary Indigenous performance. She teaches courses on Native American Studies, Broadway and American Culture, Authenticity and Representation, Critical University Studies, and Indigenous Performance. Her work can be found in Theatre Journal, American Periodicals, Theatre Survey, Mobilities, and Theatre Topics. Hughes' next book, a short work titled Theatre and Indigeneity, is forthcoming from Methuen Drama.
Research Area(s)
- Native American representation
- Indigenous theatre and performance
- Federal Indian Law
- Institutional Histories at UM
Affiliation(s)
- Core Faculty: Native American Studies (NAS)
- Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS)
- Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)
Bethany Hughes is associate professor of American Culture and director of the Native American Studies Program.
