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Dr. Charlene Gould,
Professor of Theatre and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences


Dr. Gould is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and professor of Theatre. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in theatre and film. While at KU she studied with all-women professional theatres in Boston, Minneapolis, and New York for her doctoral research. She was a recipient of a post-doctoral fellowship at Chicago’s Northwestern University where she participated in historical and interdisciplinary representation of the Holocaust.

Along with historian Dr. Jeffrey Myers, Dr. Gould co-authored “The Performance of Memory: Diane Samuels’ Kindertransport, Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone, and Holocaust Representation” in Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representation of the Holocaust in History and the Arts (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008)
Drs. Gould and Myers have been selected to lead a workshop at the Lessons and Legacies Holocaust Conference at Northwestern University in November, 2008. Other Holocaust scholarship by Professors Gould and Myers include an article review for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, which is published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and paper presentations at Bowling Green State University and at the Midwest Popular Culture Association. At Avila, they team teach the interdisciplinary class The Holocaust in History and on Stage. She also teaches directing and theatre history classes.

In addition, Dr. Gould was selected to present her article,”Re-Imagining Gender and Religion: Women Religious as Social Activists and The Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project” at the 2007 Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference in New Orleans. This was a culmination of year-long activity surrounding Avila University’s presentation of the Dead Man Walking Theatre Project. Dr. Gould directed the play, Dead Man Walking, as well as coordinated the wide array of university events.

Dr. Gould is producing artistic director for Goppert Theatre at Avila University, where she also directs.

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