Harvey Young
Department of Theatre
Assistant Professor - Theatre, Performance Studies, and Radio/Television/Film
President, Black Theatre Association
Vice President, Association for Theatre in Higher Education
harvey@northwestern.edu
Theatre and Interpretation Center, Room 215A
1949 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2430
847-491-3262
Graduate Programs: Performance Studies, Screen Cultures, Theatre, Writing for Screen & Stage
Harvey Young’s current research interests include the development of regional theatre in Chicago between 1960 and 1980 and reading spectacles of racial violence (such as lynching) as performance. He was awarded a National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Stipend in support of the former project. Forthcoming publications include his first book, Embodying Black Experience (under contract with The University of Michigan Press) and articles on the theatre of Anna Deavere Smith, the influence of Emmett Till, and the complicated identity of the Black Cherokee.
Education
| PhD | Theatre, Cornell University |
| MA | Theatre, Cornell University |
| MA | Media Study/Women’s Studies, University at Buffalo |
| BA | Film Studies, Yale University (with Distinction) |
Recent Publications
Young, Harvey (In Press). "Twilight in Tennessee: The Similar Styles of Anna Deavere Smith and Tennessee Williams." In The Kindness of Playwrights: The In(con)fluence of Tennessee Williams on American Drama, Philip Kolin, editor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
Young, Harvey (2007). Choral Compassion: Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood and Venus in Smith-Howard, Alycia, Suzan Lori-Parks Casebook. Routledge.
Young, Harvey with David Krasner, Lisa M. Anderson, Nadine George-Graves, John Rogers Harris, Barbara Lewis, and Henry Miller (November, 2006). African American Theatre. Theatre Survey.
Young, Harvey (December, 2005). The Black Body as Souvenir in American Lynching. Theatre Journal.
Recent Awards and Honors
| 2004 | Penny Warren Honorary Service Award |
| 2004 | Faculty Affiliate Award, Alice B. Kaplan Center for the Humanities |
Recent Fellowships & Grants
| 2007 | Stanford University, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Visiting Faculty Fellowship. |
| 2006 | Mellon Foundation/Alice B. Kaplan Center for the Humanities (Northwestern) Grant |
| 2005 | National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend |
| 2001 | Harvard University, W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Non-Resident Fellowship |
Courses
| 502 | Phenomenology |
| 448 | Chicago (Regional) Theatre |
| 365-2 | American Drama: 1950 to Today |
| 140-1 | Theatre in Context |
Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
