Research Interests
Public history and interdisciplinary research, popular entertainment, burlesque, film studies, Queer theory and performance, cultural policy and arts funding, North American academic culture, and standards of academic integrity
Education
- M.A / Ph.D. Drama, Tufts University
- B.A., Theater and Rhetoric, Bates College
Biosketch
Rae Mansfield oversees the Office of National Scholarships and the Honors Thesis / Project process, and is Faculty-in-Residence for the Commonwealth Honors Living Learning Community. Rae is also a playwright, a theatre technician, faculty advisor for the Off-Broadway Players student theatre group, and co-founder of Theatre for Lifelong Learning.
Teaching Philosophy
University experiences in and out of traditional classrooms facilitate students’ realization of their ability to effect real-world change from creation to collaboration and implementation.
Selected Publications
- Theatre for Lifelong Learning (2022), Intellect Ltd.
- “Sweatpants,” Hindsight 2021, Left Edge
- Let’s Build Theatre Communities…or Not: Virtual Teaching and Scholarship in an Exclusionary World (2021), Theatre Survey, 62(3)
- Physical Distancing and Community Connection (2020), Inside Higher Ed, May 12
- Waves of Opportunity: Best Practices for Teaching Older Adults in Theatre (2019), Theatre Topics, 29(1)