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List of Professors
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Years at Michigan |
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Jack Earl Bender |
1946 - 1987 | Professor of Theatre and Drama |
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Zelma H. Weisfeld |
1960 - 1988 | Professor of Music (Theatre and Drama) |
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Alan G. Billings |
1966 - 1993 | Professor of Theatre |
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Peter Ferran |
1973 - 1994 | Associate Professor of English, Theatre and Residential College |
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Sarah-Jane Gwillim-Kerr |
1984 - 2012 |
Clinical Assistant Professor of Theatre & Drama Clinical Assistant Professor Emerita |
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Philip Kerr |
1984 - 2012 | Professor of Theatre & Drama |
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John Russell Brown |
1985 - 1997 | Professor of Theatre and Drama, English Language and Literature |
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Arnold P. Aronson |
1986 - 1990 |
Associate Professor of Theatre and Drama Chair Department of Theatre and Drama |
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Charles A. Jackson |
1986 - 1994 | Assistant Professor of Theatre and Drama |
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Peter M. Beudert |
1987 - 1994 | Assistant Professor of Theatre and Drama |
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Laura J. Crow |
1987 - 1994 | Associate Professor of Theatre and Drama |
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Anne M. Klautsch |
1987 - 1992 | Assistant Professor of Theatre |
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Leigh A. Woods |
1987 - 2019 | Professor of Theate & Drama |
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Barry L. Goldman |
1988 - 1990 | Assistant Professor of Theatre |
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Richard E. Nelson |
1988 - 1990 | Associate Professor of Theatre |
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Oyamo Gordon |
1989 - 2014 |
Associate Professor of English Language & Literature Professor of Theatre and Drama |
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Robert J. Cardullo |
1990 - 2003 | Professor of Theatre and Drama |
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Victor En Yu Tan |
1990 - 1994 | Associate Professor of Music (Theatre) |
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Erik Fredricksen |
1990 - 2011 |
Professor of Theatre & Drama Claribel Baird Halstead Professor of Theatre & Drama |
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Jerald C. Schwiebert |
1990 - 2015 |
Clinical Assistant Professor of Performing Arts (Theatre & Drama) Clinical Assistant Professor Emeritus |
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John Neville-Andrews |
1992 - 2019 | Professor of Theatre and Drama |
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Annette Masson |
1992 - 2017 | Professor of Theatre & Drama |
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Renee A. Simmons |
1994 - 1996 | Assistant Professor of Music (Theatre and Drama) |
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Jessica M. Hahn |
1994 - 2020 | Professor of Theatre & Drama |
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Vincent Mountain |
1994 - 2020 | Professor of Theatre & Drama |
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Wendy Hammond |
1997 - 2002 |
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Drama Lecturer III in Screen Arts and Culture |
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Darryl V. Jones |
1997 - 2004 | Assistant Professor of Theatre and Drama |
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Glenda Dickerson |
1997 - 2012 | Professor of Theatre & Drama |
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Robert M. Knopf |
1998 - 2000 | Assistant Professor of Theatre and Drama |
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Nephelie M. Andonyadis |
2001 | Associate Professor of Theatre and Drama |
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Brian R. Lewis |
2005 - 2007 | Clinical Assistant Professor of Music |
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Gregory Poggi |
2005 - 2020 | Professor of Theatre & Drama |
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William B. Worthen |
2006 - 2008 |
Professor of English Language and Literature, Theatre and Drama Professor of Theatre and Drama J. L. Styan Collegiate Professor of Drama |
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Priscilla Lindsay |
2010 - 2023 | Professor of theatre &n drama |