Leslie
Pasternack

Leslie's Research

Ph.D. Theatre History and Criticism, May 2004, University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation title: "Theatrical Transvestism in the United States and the Performance of American Identities: 1870-1935"
Dissertation Chair: Stacy Wolf

M.A. Theatre History and Criticism, 1993, University of Texas at Austin
Thesis Title: "Moving Violence from the Stage to the Page: Stage Combat in Theory and Practice" 
Thesis Chair: Oscar Brockett

PUBLICATIONS

FORTHCOMING: "The Bride Wielded a Razor: Images of Women on the Blackface Stage of James McIntyre and Thomas Heath."
Comparative Drama, 2007.

"Vaudeville." Boyhood in America: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Priscilla Ferguson Clement and Jacqueline S. Reinier. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2002. 

Reviews of Peter Bailey's Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City and M. Alison Kibler's Rank Ladies: Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville in  The Australasian Drama Studies Review, n.36, 2000.

Performance Review, Philip Glass's "Les Enfants Terribles,"
Theatre InSight, n. 17, 1998.

Interview with performance artist Terry Galloway, Theatre InSight, n. 19, 1998.

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Reader, Theatre Topics, 2005-present

Managing Editor, Theatre InSight, n. 18, 1998

Co-Curator and Editor, "The Critical Difference," exhibited in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 1997

CONFERENCE PANELS, PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

"Actresses and Female Impersonators in Dialogue on Harrigan's Stage," ATHE Annual Conference, Chicago, 2006

"Casting a Glamour: Female Impersonation in Cultural Context," ATHE Annual Conference San Francisco, 2005

Panelist, "Banned in Boston," Northeastern University Honors Program, 2004

"Ada Lewis: Tough Girl of the American Vaudeville Stage," ATHE Annual Conference, San Diego, 2002

"Exploitation Optional: A Hands-On Experiment in Creating Meaningful Stage Violence," Sites of Conflict Conference, SUNY New Paltz, 2001

"Web Spectatorship: Incorporating On-Line Tools Into Introduction to Theatre," ASTR Annual Conference, New York City, 2000 

"Blackface Brides and Ham Tree Girls: Minstrel Duo McIntyre and Heath," Mid-Atlantic PC/ACA Annual Conference, Albany, 2000 

"The Effects of Family Pride and Homophobia on Biographical accounts of the Careers of Harrigan and Hart," ASTR Annual Conference, Philadelphia, 1999

"Web Spectatorship: Teaching Theatre Studies Online Without Losing the 'Live,'" Teaching Online in Higher Education (TOHE) Online Conference, 1999 

"Tony Hart's Ambiguous Embodiment: Cross-Dressing on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage," Australasian Drama Studies Association Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand, 1998