Amy B. Huang
Assistant Professor of Theater
Associations
Theater
Schaeffer Theatre, Room 302
American Studies
About
Amy B. Huang holds a PhD in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies from Brown University. Her book project, Circuits of Secrets on British and American Stages, focuses on how theatre’s secrecy engages with the power relations and racist imaginaries attached to slavery, settler colonialism, Orientalism, and Chinese exclusion. Her work has appeared in Theatre Survey and the Routledge edited volume, Milestones in Asian American Theatre. Her research has been inspired and supported by the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Harrison Institute at UVA, the Newberry Library, and Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
Current Courses
Fall Semester 2025
Introduction to Performance Studies
In this course students explore the question "what is performance?" and how this informs their understanding of an increasingly mediated and globalized world. They examine the broad spectrum of performance in its many forms including theater, dance, visual art, performance art, everyday life, folkl…
Asian American and Pacific Islander Forms of Memory
What forms do memories take? How do processes of remembering hold communities together? This class explores how a range of Asian American and Pacific Islander artists and authors remember and provide perspectives on the legacies of war, incarceration, empire, and migration. Together, we will examine…
Senior Thesis
Theater Makers students who elect this option structure their written work around a creative project designated by the department in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, playwriting, stage management or technical theater. Theater Studies/Dramaturgy students who elect this option focus on scholarly…