Bibliographic record
Abstract
Doctoral Projects in Progress in Theatre Arts, 2007 James McDermott, Editor / Researcher (bio) and Michael Novak, Associate Editor (bio) This is the fifty-fifth 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 postal mail, or fax. A future request for information will be mailed in October 2007 for the 2008 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 secondarily 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 second and last year as editor / researcher for this report; I will be handing over the responsibilities for its continued publication to my associate. I hope that my colleagues around the country will continue to work with him in providing their research information so that the state of our art (and the scope of its interests) can be accurately reported and updated. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to Texas Tech University's Department of Theatre and Dance and its chair, Professor Fred Christoffel, for sponsoring our research request. We are grateful for the response we received from the theatre community; we are also very committed to presenting the information in a format that best relates the work being done. To this end, my associate will continue to evaluate the categorical system to ensure that next year's dissertations find their appropriate place in this report. [End Page 343] James McDermott James McDermott (james.v.mcdermott@ttu.edu) is an adjunct professor at Lubbock Christian University in Lubbock, Texas. He is also an ABD-PhD (playwriting and acting / directing) student in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University. His research interests include Irish American drama and American gender issues in the arts. He anticipates graduating in summer 2007. Michael Novak Michael Novak (michael.m.novak@ttu.edu) is a PhD (arts administration and history / theory / criticism) student and part-time graduate instructor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University. His research interests include the performance of race, gender, and ethnicity in boxing. He anticipates graduating in spring 2009. Part I Africa Beadle, Dixie. Postcolonial African Playwright-Intellectualism in Contemporary American Avant-Garde Performance. University of Wisconsin–Madison. Department of Theatre and Drama, African Studies. Aparna Dharwadker. 2008. Mulekwa, Charles. Performing the Legacy of War in Uganda. Brown University. Graduate Department of Theatre and Performance Studies. John Emigh. 2009. Rapoo, Connie. Figures of Sacrifice: Africa in Transnational Imagination. UCLA. Theater. Sue-Ellen Case. 2007. Brazil Melo, Carla. Squatting Dystopia: Invading Real and Imagined Spaces in Contemporary Brazil. UCLA. Theater. Sue-Ellen Case. 2007. Bulgaria Nikolova, Teodora. Stanislav Stratiev’s Dramatic Oeuvre and the Discourse of Balkan Syndromes. University of Wisconsin–Madison. Department of Theatre and Drama. Mike Vanden Heuvel. 2007. Canada Kivisto, Mikko W. Prophet or Touchstone: The Theatre and Theosophy of Roy Mitchell. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Theatre. Peter A. Davis. 2007. China Zhuang, Jiayun. Not Yet Farewell: Postsocialist Performance in Urban China. UCLA. Theater. Haiping Yan. 2008. England Medieval Westwood, Rachel. Oral Tradition, Literacy, and Textual Catechesis in the Corpus Christi Plays. Ohio University. Interdisciplinary Arts. William Condee. 2007. Renaissance Balizet, Ariane. Meaning and Manners: Blood on the Early Modern Stage. University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). English. John Watkins. 2007. Carey, Katherine M. John Webster’s The White Devil: A Literary Artifact of the Jacobean Struggle for Power by King, Pope, and Machiavel. University of Georgia. Theatre and Film Studies. Charles B. Davis. 2007. du Toit, Simon. The Antitheatrical Body...
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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 | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.056 | 0.046 |
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".