Eunice S. Ferreira
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Through our scientific and technological genius, we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment, we must make of it a brotherhood.
Background
Eunice S. Ferreira is a director, actor and playwright who combines scholarship with artistic vision and practice. She is associate professor of theater at Skidmore College, where she is a recent recipient of a Mellon Periclean grant to support creative collaborations on civic engagement with local organizations. Ferreira holds a PhD in theater history from Tufts University and an MA in directing from Emerson College.
Interests
Ferreira’s research, teaching, and directing are interdisciplinary, international, and intercultural in scope, with a focus on race, representation, and artists of the global majority. Her goal is to train students to be innovative theater makers who will reflect a greater breadth of the human experience on our stages.
Embracing the notion of the scholar artist, Ferreira’s research focuses on the intersections of theatrical performance and issues of language, race, class, gender, culture and national identity. Her areas of expertise include world theater history, intercultural performance, translation studies, multilingual performance, creole and mixed race studies, transnational studies, African American theater, race and performance, musical theater, new play development, theater for social change, Cape Verdean theater, and theater of the African diaspora.
Sample Work
Publication
Applied Theatre: Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Radical Imaginings for Just Communities
Ferreira, Eunice S. and Lisa L. Biggs, eds. Applied Theatre: Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Radical Imaginings for Just Communities. (Under contract with Routledge.)
Publication
Crioulo Performance: Remapping Creole and Mixed Race Theatre
Ferreira, Eunice S. Crioulo Performance: Remapping Creole and Mixed Race Theatre. (Under contract with Vanderbilt University Press).
Publication
Cape Verdean Theatre: Enacting Political Theory and Reclaiming Roots for Crioulo Performance
Ferreira, Eunice S. “Cape Verdean Theatre: Enacting Political Theory and Reclaiming Roots for Crioulo Performance.” Journal of Cape Verdean Studies 4.1 (2019): 3.
Publication
Setting a global table with multilingual theater
Ferreira, Eunice S. “Setting a global table with multilingual theater.” Casting a Movement: The Welcome Table Initiative. Routledge, 2019. 117-130.