Lynn Deboeck

Bio

Lynn Deboeck (MA, PhD) is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Lecturer in Gender Studies and the Honors College at the University of Utah. Her research interests include gender performance including the representation of maternity and motherhood in Western theatrical traditions and she most recently co-edited and published an anthology: (M)Other Perspectives: Staging Motherhood in 21st Century North American Theatre & Performance which came out in 2023 from Routledge.

Contributions

Precarious Adjuncthood and Care-Giving Solutions

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In the fall of 2018, I embarked on a grant study titled “Teaching with Liveness.” My pedagogical premise was that as theater educators, we should be using live theater as a part of our tool kit. I hired, directed, and paid actors to perform scenes from plays my classes were reading to workshop in real time and glean what liveness can do, but also to use as a learning tool that could be generalized to understand all the theater we were learning about in my theater history and script analysis...

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