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Roger Copeland
Professor of Theater and Dance
 
• Contemporary American dance
• Contemporary British theater
• Art in public policy
• Merce Cunningham
• Susan Sontag
 
The Unrecovered, a film written, directed, and produced by Copeland about the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, 2005.
Merce Cunningham and the Modernizing of Modern Dance. Routledge, 2004.
"A Room of His Own: Beyond Pinter 101." American Theatre (October 2001): 22-26, 130-133.
"Who Lost the Arts? Or, Why America Has No National Arts Policy As We Approach the 21st Century." Proceedings of the Dancing in the Millennium Conference, Washington, D.C. (January 2001): 95-100.
"Between Description and Destruction." The Routledge Dance Studies Reader. Routledge (1998): 98-107.
"The Habits of Consciousness." Conversations with Susan Sontag. University Press of Mississippi (1998): 183-191.
What Is Dance? Readings in Theory and Criticism. Oxford University Press, 1983.
More than 100 articles about dance, theater, and film in publications including the New York Times, the New Republic, the Village Voice, Dance Theatre Journal, and American Theatre.
Individual Artist Grants in Criticism, Ohio Arts Council, 2000 and 2004.
 
• BS, Northwestern University, 1971
• MFA, Yale University, 1974
• DFA, Yale University, 1977
 
Roger Copeland: Faculty Web Page
"Against the Grain" in Oberlin Online News
"For Theater Professor Copeland, Ideas Take Root and Film Takes Wing" in Around the Square




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