About Catherine
CATHERINE COLE, Professor, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Cole is the author of Ghana’s Concert Party Theatre (2001) which received a 2002 Honorable Mention for The Barnard Hewitt Award for outstanding research in theatre history from the American Society for Theatre Research and was a finalist for the Herskovitz Prize in African Studies. Cole is the co-editor of Africa After Gender? (2007), and she is currently completing Stages of Transition: Performing South Africa’s Truth Commission (forthcoming, Indiana UP). Her essays have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, Theatre Magazine, and Africa, and as well as numerous edited collections. Cole’s dance theater piece Five Foot Feat, created in collaboration with Christopher Pilafian, toured North America in 2002-2005. Her research has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fund for U.S. Artists, the American Association of University Women, the ELA Foundation, the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, and the National Humanities Center. She is currently the editor of Theatre Survey. At UC Berkeley, Cole teaches courses in African and African Diaspora culture, postcolonial theatre, ethnography and disability studies.