| Faculty Experts at Oberlin College |
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| Roger Copeland |
| Professor of Theater and Dance |
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• Contemporary American dance
• Contemporary British theater
• Art in public
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• Merce Cunningham
• Susan Sontag |
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• 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. |
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• BS, Northwestern University, 1971
• MFA, Yale University, 1974
• DFA, Yale University, 1977
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• 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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