Katie Gough

An academic, writer, theatre-maker, and contemplative pedagogue, Katie Gough serves as the resident dramaturge and is an Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic: Haptic Allegories (Routledge 2013). She is currently working on a number of critical, creative, and educational projects under the large umbrella title The Dying Arts. The first iteration of this project is a series of performative lectures made possible by the financial support of the UNH Institute for Public Humanities.


Submissions

The Age of Duse : Gloss

The lectures are written for a course that is never taught because the discipline in which it might be delivered does not yet exist.

The Age of Duse

Duse’s superpower: her capacity to disappear, leaving only her plaster hands as evidence that she was a material presence in the world. Disappearance. Reproduction. She knew the theatrical drill.