Rebecca Rossen is a dance historian and performance scholar whose research focuses on concert dance, representations of the Holocaust, memory, trauma, and history in dance and performance, theatrical stagings of identity, Jewish identity in performance, gender and performance, and performance-as-research. She is an Associate Professor in the Performance as Public Practice Program.
I teach undergraduate courses on dance history, identity and performance including "Dancing America," "Gender and Sexuality in Performance," "Jewish identity in Performance," and "Narratives in Physical Performance." I teach graduate courses on performance-as-research methods, performance theory, gender and sexuality in performance, trauma and memory in performance, and teaching methods in theatre and dance. Although I primarily advise graduate students in Performance as Public Practice, I have also worked with students in American studies, Art History, Jewish Studies, the Humanities, and Plan II.
