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Abstract
Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2008 Michael Novak, Editor/Researcher (bio) and Jeremy White, Associate Editor (bio) This is the fifty-sixth annual report of dissertations in progress in theatre arts in the United States. The entries contained in this report were solicited from those universities offering a doctoral degree in areas related to theatre; the completeness and accuracy of the report depend largely on the immense cooperation of those students and faculty members who were kind enough to submit complete and timely information—either by e-mail, regular mail, or fax. A future request for information will be mailed in October 2008 for the 2009 edition. Please contact the editor/researcher if an institution is not already receiving the annual call for submissions. This report lists (in order) the doctoral student's name, dissertation title, university, department affiliation, faculty supervisor, and projected year of completion. Dissertation topics are arranged in two parts: in Part I, topics are listed first geographically, and second by time periods; Part II provides additional divisions for those projects that do not fit easily according to geography or time, but conform to the growing areas of contemporary research. This is my first year as editor/researcher for this report. My associate editor and I greatly appreciate the cooperation of all the students and faculty who have contributed to it this year. It is important to realize, however, that the object of study in theatre arts is constantly expanding its boundaries. In light of this, for next year I would like to alter the archival system that has been used in the compilation of this report in order to make it more conducive to the current state of theatre academia. My associate editor and I will be working toward that end over the summer. Please feel free to contact us with any suggestions or requests you may have regarding this. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the Texas Tech University Department of Theatre and Dance and its chair, Fred Christoffel, for sponsoring our research request. Again, we are grateful for the responses we received from the theatre community. [End Page 337] Part I Africa Ferreira, Eunice. Cape Verde Theatre: Resisting, Reclaiming and Recreating National and Cultural Identity in Postcolonial Lusophone Africa. Tufts University. Drama. Claire Conceison. 2009. Australia Anderson, Mary. Transposing Place: The Migrant and the Natural in Site-Specific Performance in Hobart, Tasmania and Alice Springs, Northern Territory. University of California, Davis. Theatre and Dance. Barbara Sellers-Young. 2008. Canada Mansfield, Rachel. Drama and the Peaceable Kingdom: Adaptation, Interculturalism and Canadian Identity. Tufts University. Drama. Claire Conceison. 2009. England Medieval Meacham, Thomas. Thomas Chaundler: Performance, Politics, and Patronage in Late Medieval England. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Theatre. Pamela Sheingorn. 2011. Renaissance Geddes, Louise. "The Wounds Become Him": Sacrifice, Honor, and the Hazard of Much Blood in Shakespeare's Roman Plays. Graduate Center, CUNY. English. Richard McCoy. 2008. Guy, Connie. The Female Grotesque in Renaissance Drama. University of Kansas. English. David Berseron. 2008. Stetner, Clifford. Shakespeare's "Shrieking Harbinger": Shaping Time in The Phoenix and the Turtle . The Graduate Center, CUNY. English. Mario Digangi. 2008. Restoration/Eighteenth Century Davis, Hope. Playing (with) Space in the Author's Wheel. Bowling Green State University. Theatre and Film. Ronald Shields. 2008. France Crosby, Joy. Theological Space and Making Belief: The King, the Church and the Theater in Seventeenth Century France. University of California, Berkeley. Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Shannon Steen and Deborah Blocker. 2010. Fisek, Emine. Complication Hospitality: French Theatre and the Act of Welcome. University of California, Berkeley. Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Shannon Jackson. 2010. Japan Halebsky, Judy. Noh in Transformation: The Practice of Japanese Noh in Contemporary International Performance. University of California, Davis. Theatre and Dance. Lynette Hunter. 2008. Poland Wrobel, Karolina. The Rebirth of Jewish Culture on Polish Soil: A Case Study of the Jewish Festival in Krakow. Tufts University. Drama. Laurence Senelick. 2008. South America Bush, Jason. Danza de la Raza: The Theatricalization of the Peruvian Scissors Dance. Ohio State University. Theatre. Lesley Ferris. 2009. Legon, Elisa. "Can I Bite a Piece of You?": Consumption and Devouring in Argentine and Brazilian Theatre. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Theatre. Jean...
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.043 | 0.030 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".