Emily A. Rollie (PhD) is an associate professor of Theatre and affiliate faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Central Washington University, USA.

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Emily A. Rollie

1. The Enduring Legacy of Ntozake Shange and Adrienne Kennedy

Martine Kei Green-Rogers

2. Staging Queer Feminisms and Legacies in North America

Bess Rowen

3. Making Lesbian-Feminist Theatre: Lois Weaver, Tammy Whynot, and the Legacy of Split Britches

Benjamin Gillespie

4. Harnessing the Political Power of Traditional Femininity in the 1980s: David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly and Griselda Gambaro's Antígona furiosa

Rachel M.E. Wolfe

5. Staging Genders & Centering Women's Voices in West African Theatres

Heather Jeanne Denyer and Ngozi Udengwu

6. Crossing Borders and Transforming Gender Identities: Mahesh Dattani and Majula Padmanabhan

Jashodhara Sen

7. Staging Indigenous Women's Voices, Histories, and Power

Yvette Nolan and Emily A. Rollie

8. Agency through Adaptation: MENA Women in Shakespeare's Sisters, Jogging, and Noura

Nabra Nelson and Marina Johnson

9. Staging and Critiquing Masculinities: Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman and Straight White Men

Ramón Esquivel

10. Refuting Narratives of Newness, Constructing Transgender Community

Nicolas Shannon Savard