Minou Arjomand

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2016- University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor of English 2013-16 Boston University, Assistant Professor of English Affiliated Faculty, Center for the Study of Europe

EDUCATION 2013 Ph.D., Theatre, Columbia University 2008 M.A., Theatre, Columbia University 2007 Postbac, Freie Universität Berlin in conjunction with the Fulbright Fellowship 2006 B.A., German; Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University magna cum laude

PUBLICATIONS Edited Book 2013 (co-edited with Ramona Mosse), The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies (New York and London, Routledge) an expanded and revised English edition of Erika Fischer-Lichte, Theaterwissenschaft, 2010. Refereed Articles 2016 “Performing Catastrophe: Erwin Piscator’s Documentary Theatre,” Modern Drama 59.1: 49-74. 2015 “Documents Old and New: Performing History through Digital Media,” Maska— The Performing Arts Journal 30: 138-147. 2013 “From Bayreuth to Mahagonny: Brecht and Wagner at the Kroll Opera,” The Brecht Yearbook 38: 191-205. 2010 “E.M. Forster’s Billy Budd and the Collaborative Work of Opera,” Theatre Survey 51.2: 225-245. Essays and Reviews 2015 “Status Updates” Public Books, Online. 2013 “Fifty Shades of Grey: Capitalism’s Erogenous Zones” Public Books, Online. 2012 “Two Stagings of Die Meistersinger and the Creation of a Soviet Audience,” Perspectives on Europe 42.1: 77-79. 2010 “All the Libraries, A Stage” n +1, Online. 2010 “Three Books on Stage” n+1, Online. 2009 “La bohème,” The Opera Quarterly 25.3-4: 299-306. Translations (German to English) 2013 Erika Fischer-Lichte, The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies (New York and London, Routledge) 2012 (with Stefan Höhne). Axel Töpfer and Jakob Kirch, Main Street (Leipzig: Institute for Book Art) 2008 Libretto. Christian Jost, The Arabian Night, (Mainz and New York: Schott) Works in Progress Show Trials: Performing Justice After Atrocity (under review, Columbia UP) “Erwin Piscator, Bertolt Brecht, and the Development of Epic Theatre” in Great Stage Directors: Meyerhold, Piscator, Brecht (under contract, Bloomsbury) M. Arjomand

“Imaginary Artifacts” in Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage, ed. Daniel Sack (under contract, Routledge)

GRANTS, AWARDS, and FELLOWSHIPS 2016-7 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholars Program 2015-6 Boston University Center for the Humanities Junior Faculty Fellowship 2015 Boston University Center for the Humanities Summer Stipend 2014 Edwin Gale Research Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin 2012 Mellon Summer Research Grant, Columbia University 2010 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Research Grant 2010 Artist Residency, L’Atelier Opéra en Création at the Aix-en-Provence Festival 2008-10 Deutsche Bank Foundation “Akademie Musiktheater Heute” Fellowship 2009 Council for European Studies, Mellon Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship 2008 Bennett Prize for best comparatist M.A. thesis at Columbia University 2008 Kathryn Davis Fellowship, Middlebury Language School for Russian 2006-7 Fulbright Fellowship Grant

PERFORMING ARTS 2015- Producer, Petreus: A Love Story, under development with the Institute for Transmedia Performance, Boston. (ongoing) 2007-16 Co-founder and board member of Morningside Opera 2014 Director, The Mother: A Cantata for Ferguson at Marsh Chapel, Boston University, November 19. 2012 Co-author and dramaturge, A Weimar Flute at the Housing Works Café, NYC, June 11-18. 2011 Director, MYSTERIEN at the Cornelia Street Café, NYC, October 30. 2011 Director, Atra, ossia l'amore ricordato at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, NYC, February 4-5. 2010 Co-director, The Map of Lost Things by Darragh Martin at P.S. 122, NYC, September 16-26. 2010 Dramaturge, Innenleben at the Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt, Germany, October 1.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2014 “Documents Old and New: Performing History through Digital Media,” Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University, March 29. 2014 “Alex in the City: Thinking Through Dmitri Tcherniakov's Prince Igor at the Metropolitan Opera” co-sponsored by The Opera Quarterly, the University of Chicago, and Bard Graduate Center, February 7. 2013 “Theatrical Dissent: Brecht and the 1953 Uprisings in East Germany,” Harvard Drama Colloquium, September 25. 2013 “Restaging Justice: Peter Weiss’s The Investigation in East and West Germany,” John Jay College, City University of New York, March 14. CONFERENCES

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2015 “Performing Critique: Five Obstructions,” (performance workshop) Performance Philosophy Conference, April 10-12. 2015 “Brecht’s Sacred Music,” Modern Languages Association Conference, January 8- 11. 2014 “The Chelsea Manning Project,” (performance workshop) Theatre, Performance, Philosophy Conference, June 26-28. 2014 “The Piscator-Stanislavski Method,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), March 21-3. 2013 “Documentary Theatre and the Postdramatic,” American Society of Theatre Research (ASTR), November 7-10. 2013 “Piscator in New York,” ACLA, April 4-5. 2013 “The Spectator as Jurist,” International Brecht Society Symposium, May 20-23. 2012 “Postwar Justice in Erwin Piscator’s Theatre,” ACLA, March 30-April 1. 2012 “Peter Weiss’s Witnesses,” New York – London Research Network in Sociology, Social Theory, and Cultural Studies (NYLON), March 12-14. 2011 Co-organizer with Anne Holt, “Remixing Opera,” a conference on the future of opera sponsored by Columbia and Princeton Universities, January 14-15. 2010 “Two Stagings of Die Meistersinger and the Creation of a Soviet Audience,” Council for European Studies Conference (CES), April 15-17. 2010 Organizer, “The Nose in Transit: William Kentridge and the Poetics of Displacement,” co-sponsored by the Freie Universität Berlin, Columbia University, and the Metropolitan Opera. 2010 “E.M. Forster’s Billy Budd: Collaboration and the Politics of Opera” NYLON, March 19-21. 2009 “Brünnhilde, Billy Budd, and the Aesthetics of Redemption,” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference (NEMLA), February 28- March 1.

TEACHING Boston University (2013-2016) Narratives of Urban Life Introduction to Drama Theatre in Boston Modern Drama I Modern Drama II Senior Thesis and Graduate Student Teaching Advisor

Harvard University Mellon Summer School of Theatre and Performance Research (2015) Graduate Student Dissertation Workshop

Columbia University, as Instructor (2009-2013) Contemporary Civilization: full-year core curriculum course on social and political philosophy University Writing, first-year writing seminar PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

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Director of Research, Institute for Transmedia Performance Boston (current) Chair, English Department Curriculum Review Committee (BU, 2014-2015) Member, Center for the Study of Europe Executive Committee (BU, 2014-2015) Faculty Advisor, undergraduate theatre company “Wandering Minds” (BU 2014-2015) Member, Assistant Professor of 20th/21st Century Music Faculty Search Committee, Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology (BU, 2014-15) Project Director, “Revolutionary Voices,” a two-part series of performances featuring the work of BU undergraduates (BU, 2014-15)

LANGUAGES German (fluent), French (reading), Russian (reading), Persian (basic)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Comparative Literature Association; American Society for Theatre Research; Modern Language Association; Performance Philosophy Network; International Brecht Society; Council for European Studies

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