Visiting Professor Claire Conceison (Duke University) explores expressions of collective identity and Maoist nostalgia on stage in contemporary Beijing at a Cultural Revolution-themed “red restaurant” and in Meng Jinghui’s hit play “I Love XXX.”
Dr. Claire Conceison, Visiting Professor
A scholar, translator, and director, Claire Conceison is Professor of Theater Studies and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University and earned her A.M. in Regional Studies—East Asia from Harvard University and her PhD in Theatre Studies from Cornell University. Her areas of research and teaching are contemporary Chinese theater, cross-cultural exchange and performance, Asian American theatre, translation, and sport as performance. Recent translations include Gao Xingjian’s play Ballade Nocturne from French into English (Sylph Editions, 2010), and Meng Jinghui’s Rhinoceros in Love. She is author of the forthcoming anthology I Love XXX and Other Plays of Meng Jinghui (Seagull Books) and of two books, Significant Other: Staging the American in China (University of Hawai’i, 2004) and Voices Carry: Behind Bars and Backstage During China’s Revolution and Reform, the autobiography of Ying Ruocheng (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009). Her articles have been published in journals including TDR (The Drama Review), Theatre Journal, Asian Theatre Journal, and Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. In Spring Semester, 2015, Professor Conceison is teaching 21M848 Topics in Performance Studies: Sport as Performance T/Th 12:00-1:30pm in W16-RRA & 21M710 Script Analysis T/Th 3-4:30pm in W16-RRA.
