[English-undergrad] Fwd: Tufts PhD program in Theatre and Performance Studies

[James Tobias]

Dear English Undergrads,

Some of you may be considering graduate school in English or in related fields. Here’s some information sent to us from Tufts University’s PhD program in Theater and Performance Studies, which is reaching out to English undergraduates who may be interested.

Take care,

jt

—
James Tobias, Ph.D.
Professor 
Chair, Department of English

https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95465985946?pwd=Z1A4Yk1UZDhBTjY5UkJ5R1VQTWUvQT09

"We at UCR would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land, water, and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. Today this meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including UCR faculty, students, and staff, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands."

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: "Camp, John Pannill" <John.Camp at tufts.edu>
> Subject: Tufts PhD program in Theatre and Performance Studies
> Date: October 17, 2025 at 12:10:56 PM PDT
> To: "Camp, John Pannill" <John.Camp at tufts.edu>
> 
> Dear Colleagues in English,
> 
> I’m writing as Director of Graduate Study for Tufts PhD program in Theatre and Performance Studies <https://asegrad.tufts.edu/program/theatre-and-performance-studies-doctorate>. We are now accepting applications for a Fall 2026 cohort and I could use your help. Would you please forward this to your English undergraduate or MA students who may be interested in an interdisciplinary PhD and invite them to consider Tufts? Our application deadline is Dec. 1, 2025. 
> 
> Our PhD curriculum is especially strong in supporting research in theatre history, 20th century Black performance, ethnography, globalization, gender and sexuality studies, religion, race, and Indigeneity in the Americas. Many of our students come from interdisciplinary backgrounds in American Studies, Ethnic Studies, English, Theatre Studies, History, Gender/Sexuality Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, and Art History. We provide an education that prepares students for jobs in and outside of academia, and we have an impressive recent track record of placing students in university faculty positions. We are especially proud to have developed a signature “Pedagogy and Professional Development” seminar that prepares students to imagine careers in and beyond the university.
> 
> We are proud of our graduate faculty, who together cover a broad area of methods and subject matter, and who work together to shepherd cutting-edge research projects. Barbara Wallace Grossman, Kareem Khubchandani, Paige McGinley, Lily Mengesha, Heather Nathans and myself are all actively involved in teaching and mentoring our PhD students. 
> 
> Our program incorporates a variety of creative and production opportunities, and we facilitate engagement with arts and arts advocacy organizations in greater Boston. Current students work as playwrights, directors, designers, dramaturgs, and performance curators. 
> 
> Best of all, each of the qualified PhD students admitted into the program receives five years of fellowships and teaching assistantships with an annual stipend of $34,500, secured through the graduate student union collective bargaining agreement. In addition, Tufts offers dissertation fellowships, student health insurance, annual travel support, and tuition remission for a total financial package valued at over $250,000.
> 
> If your students are interested in learning more, please encourage them to reach out to me directly, at jcamp03 at tufts.edu <mailto:jcamp03 at tufts.edu>. I am of course happy to answer your questions as well. 
> 
> I look forward to hearing more about your brilliant students with the hope that they might consider applying to Tufts’ PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies. 
> 
> Sincerely, 
> Pannill Camp
> 
> ---
> 
> Pannill Camp (he/him)
> Associate Professor
> Director of Graduate Studies (2025-26)
> Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
> Tufts University
> Producing co-host: www.ontappod.com <http://www.ontappod.com/>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ucr.edu/pipermail/english-undergrad/attachments/20251017/51c5bed1/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 1472 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.ucr.edu/pipermail/english-undergrad/attachments/20251017/51c5bed1/attachment-0001.p7s>