Pamela Cobrin

Pamela Cobrin teaches writing and dramatic literature courses in English and Theatre and for the American Studies Program. She is the Director of Writing and Speaking Programs and Co-Director of First-Year Seminar.  She received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from NYU. Her scholarship includes her book, Taking Place: From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broadway, Women and the New York Stage, 1880-1927 (University of Delaware Press, 2009), guest editing two issues of Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory titled "Domestic Disturbances" and “Aging” respectively.  She has also published in Scholar and Feminist Online, TDR, American Theatre Magazine and Theatre Insight.  Most recently, she published a chapter in Women and Theatre (Palgrave, 2020), “Performing the Nation State: An Examination of Female Representation in 19th Century American Theatre and the American Imagination.” She has also published scholarship on Writing Center pedagogy and Disability/Accessibility, Exploring Attitudinal, Programmatic, and Physical Access for Students with Disabilities, in Writing Centers and Disability (Fountain Head Press, 2017).